40+ years ago, my father wired up his mother-in-law’s rusty 55 Bel Air with a loud buzzer for the turn signal, as she had hit that age where driving with it on became an issue. The buzz was similar in tone and volume to the back-up signal you hear on Amazon delivery vans.

Um, nicotine addicts don’t give a shit about anything except their next smoke.

I’m amazed that Eric Clapton lived past 1970. Like Ric Flair, medical science can offer no explanation why he is still alive, so I guess it shouldn’t be a surprise that he doesn’t believe in it.

It strikes me as one of those unfunded mandates that can be capriciously enforced, based on something like the suspected ethnicity of someone’s name.  Great opportunity to shake people down for their used car.

That’s why you steal it, one piece at a time.

1st & 5th Gears:

“We surveyed 100 people and asked them to name something you will find in ‘Plaid’.“

This is the crap you get when movie making stops for over a year.  Turds that have been sitting in the can, waiting for a dearth of new material to raise their value to “why the fuck not?”.

This all could have been avoided with a simple “Unborn Baby on Board” sticker in the back window.  Then the mother would have had a police escort back to her kitchen, where she could take her shoes off and get back to work.

Care to elaborate? He’s a Mormon from Washington. If he’s not a serial killer, he’s just another plain nobody.

Tin-pot dictators never turn down loans, because they have no intention of repaying them.  Much of that “debt trap” is self-induced by kleptocratic populist governments.

I have a combo microwave/convection oven that has a pre-set for frozen pizzas, rising or non-rising crust. Slap some foil on the pan, spray it with no-stick, push two buttons and wait 20 minutes. Cooks better and more evenly than fancy woodstove places.

Makes you think their problem is a little deeper than politics.

You put 40k on an Xterra in less than a year and wonder why it died?

If you hadn’t noticed, Boeing is in the process of shooting itself behind the shed.

If I was advising Tesla, I’d recommend they find all of Hoffman Auto Group’s dissatisfied customers and give them a nice social media spotlight. Maybe even invite some of the more compelling tales of dealer avarice to testify at a state house hearing on the matter.

There is also the strong chance that “someone else’s battery” is a cheap knockoff, and that there is a whole chain of swap stations in New Jersey harvesting legit batteries for black market re-sale. If VW can cheat emissions tests, surely factory battery checks can be cheated too.

1st Gear:

Congratulations!

The other correction is that there is no “NBA Hall of Fame”. It is the “Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame”, which is why it has so many non-NBA players, coaches and executives enshrined.  Their mission is different from other HOF’s, in that they actively try to grow the game via their inductions, which is why…