trinacriabob

*snarling right now* Drew, Florida stands to lose more coastline/beach from global warming than does Cali. There's much more of a "shelf " up to CA's cities from the beach than there is FL. Still, I like the beach and I like both states.

confession

entitlement

I LOVED Magic Mountain! Loved it! My response to thread: STDs

Right. The fact that they were constructed of structural steel as opposed to reinforced concrete could, or may not have, made a difference. With steel buildings, there is a minimal amount of "skin" to protect them, so being subjected to the intense heat would take the steel to the yield point (I forget the technical term). With concrete buildings, depending on how much rebar, the quality/denominations of rebar, how much prestressing/poststressing was done and how much "cover" (concrete encasement of the rebar) is present, the buildings may have fared differently. It's something that would have to be modeled...and we need geeks with a PhD from Stanford, Berkeley or MIT to do that. Still, I do believe in global warming. The change in the earth's ice masses is nothing to be tampered with.

roller coaster (the park and the man himself, to some extent)

puma

Well, you know I like the Allure. However, I'm really curious about what it's like to drive around in a DTS?

And here's another "no surprise" couple of YouTube links... First one: this one almost gets my teary-eyed...look at all the camera flashes going off toward the end of the vid... Second one: very cool, a historic moment, that's for sure... Enjoy

No surprise here. None whatsoever. I can't get enough of this kind of stuff...

European

Degrees of freedom ... d.f. ... bad memories, a primal scream ... But I do agree with what you are saying.

Even thinking about this, or this lady, is enough to get one seriously depressed. What has the world come to?

depressing

Greenland

Yeah, great word. Our friend ocn is more articulate than he lets on...

Read preceding post. I, too, like traveling around in a luxo-boat when I'm on vacation. I'm still waiting for the day they (1) make a mistake, or (2) run out of cars and are forced to upgrade me several notches...to a DTS!

To hide the luggage. There are way too many rental vehicles that don't allow for completely hiding belongings that it perplexes me. And for those cars that are SUPPOSED to have the cover or retractable vinyl pull, most of the time it ISN'T there. So I have to go back to the counter to get a passenger car.

fur coat

stuffing

mountain lion

on

"Scarface"

Paul, when the market comes back and Buick can ascertain that a coupe would be well-received, I also think a drop-dead beautiful Riviera coupe should be offered. Until then, we can only dream...

addictive