trinacriabob

Frank Sinatra

I used to do this more often, but still do it every now and then. It's peaceful, though you can't inside the vehicle. Oftentimes, I don't want to drive it, anyway. I can always rent the cars I like. I thought about asking my C&G friends what they thought of this, after visiting a nearby auto mall last night. Actually, it's one of the larger ones and is arranged around a "ring road." If you enter late at night, there is a security booth and he appears to jot down license plate numbers as you drive in and out. Makes sense, I guess. I know some of our resident salespeople, Carbiz, Newbiewar, The O.C. and !!!Ted!!! wouldn't appreciate this, but sometimes it kind of cool to "press your thumbs" onto the car's windows and kind of study it with no one around. Do you do this?

Sorry to hear that. In addition to aggravating, it's also kind of eerie....that someone has trespassed your space. Isn't your city one of the second-tier ones in your state? I guess it happens everywhere. When I was in my last year of grad school in Champaign IL, I "splurged" to live in a nice apartment complex with parking under the building and gate access. I get either a knock on the door or something in the mail from the Champaign police department to testify or come to a hearing...great, while in grad school. Turns out this small-time criminal dork was caught going into my Cutlass in the parking garage underneath and taking change from the ashtray. He plead guilty, or was going to plead guilty, so they then told me I didn't have to go. Hope you are able to get over the negative experience. Ideally, they will catch that mo-fo if he's casing that parking lot...

The double Big Mac? Oh yeah, as if 540 calories and over 50% of your saturated fat intake from the standard Big Mac isn't enough...funny. Linda Tripp got some serious plastic surgery and a makeover...it's a "start." She was a veritable fright...a "three-bagger"...a "coyote arm" waiting to happen...

Kansas

I hope that's not the case, since you have a neat job. And, Mikey, I'm sorry to hear that. It always seems like the jobs/careers we don't like are steady and the jobs/careers we like aren't. Many states (at least a dozen) were not able to balance their budgets this year, with California being the most imbalanced in this regard. I hope this bad cycle shakes out. It will but, in the meantime, it really sucks.

Mt. Kilimanjaro

steady

squaw

ahem....Liberty fries response to thread: liberty

Cordon Bleu ...you know, rhymes with ocnblu...

:rotflmao: That's right in line with those middle school jokes: "Under the Bleachers" by Seymour Butts, and "Hawaiian Pleasure" by Kamana Wanaleia

Yes, always liked those, and if you keep all the tacky exterior attachments off of them, they're a little bit nicer than the Camaro of that same stretch of years...(pop up headlamps, nicer Pontiac dash, etc.)

hymen (I had to think of a puberty related issue)

quiet

Oh, believe me, I know. But when I was ready to purchase a new car, the Intrigue, and all of Olds was gone, so I went over to the LaCrosse. Ten years after its birth (1998), I still always notice Intrigues. What a beautifully proportioned car!

grits

You are incorrigible! That's why we like you. Well, part of time....

I listen almost exclusively to jazz. (Used to listen to classic rock, for its quality, and dance music, for its "yo mama" brand of sassiness, quite a bit more, but now, not so much). So there's a song the jazz station(s) are playing which MOVES me in the WRONG direction. It irritates me. I think it's called: Good Morning. Starts out: Good morning....Good moooorning... Very stupid...sounds like a black guy telling his woman to stay in bed a little longer.

tectonic both the lonely cowboys that ocn pines for and those Hollywood movies are made in places with a lot of tectonic plate activity

I was wondering why that was in the photo. It looks like AZ, or PS, CA, via the trees. Hey, you and Irma Bunt can rendezvous for coffee!

Rodeo Drive

Ok, for a while, it will be my 92 Regal coupe. I'm now within 1,000 miles of 250k. But, if I had to use the LaCrosse as the daily driver and wanted to get a back-up putt-around car, and no longer had the Regal, I'd consider the following (if I could find low mileage ones): - 98 or 99 Intrigue, base, only with 3800 V6 and not the 3.5 - (just saw this) on my way to work in the AM, I pass up a non-GM dealership that has an early 2000s Grand Prix GT coupe in the metallic gold with the tan interior. I really like those. - lastly, I thought about how nice the early 2000s Bonneville LE with some stock alloy wheels, NO spoiler, and the plump cloth bucket seats might be as a freeway cruiser/boulevardier...and really useful to cart people around comfortably or put a lot of stuff in the trunk. What would your "extra" car(s) be?

Mardi Gras (Fat Tuesday)

QM2 (grandest ocean liner ever built)