trinacriabob

Thanks, Har. I have NO trouble getting some when I decide to.It's also fairly uncool to keep posting under the name of a person that's gone from C&G. I'm surprised the other mods haven't shut this down. It takes down the overall credibility of the site.

No...an inflated figure, Custom...and you're getting to be kind of an asshole...

DEJA VU - UV AJED Ain't that the truth

Thanks, Fly. I never said my mind wasn't somewhat weird...but then, most people here are kind of weird or they wouldn't be obsessed with cars to this extent and post on this site to the extent they do. It's just that P-C-S is....well....P-C-S. Just an opportunity to rib the Borg...nothing more.

I swear...your mind is a weird place. to you, too.

Susan

+1 Amen, as the current double decked cantilevered monstrosity between Treasure/Yerba Buena Island and Oakland is an eyesore...and dangerous to boot. I feel that the central tower kind of harkens to the Coit Tower, in a broadbrush kind of way. It will be nice to drive into SF from the east on such a nice new bridge. They will need FIVE lanes of vehicular traffic in each direction to mate seamlessly with the Bay Bridge's two decks of traffic. Learn something new every day: the REAL reason why the GW sings! LOL.

rotund

Do you see much difference in the Throg's Neck and the Whitestone (they are visible from each other)? I like that neighborhood in Queens the Whitestone lands into, with all those all-brick gingerbread-cookie looking houses...quite a treat from beige stucco and mission tile roofs I grew up with out West. But, in a Yiddish accent, I say to myself "Vell, I can't live here, I vould be the token goyem on the block. Oy" The GW is funny in that it had beautiful proportions and then looks both chunky because of the towers and spindly because they are not solids, but rather, carried out in braced lattice-type framework. From the boat ride around Manhattan, the GW is known as "the bridge that sings," presumably for it's beauty at the time it was fairly new. I love pictures of the Verrazzano with great liners such as the QE2 and the QM2 going under it...borderline orgasmic!

Very cool...no wonder you're so multi-faceted.

Just curious, what did you study before grad school? Engineering or something related?

Oh brother, that is the EXCEPTION and not the rule. I just spent almost a month during the summer lying on beaches in Italy and I DID NOT see anything like that. However, what I did see is that Italian women, who are obsessed with being thin, have gotten chunkier...my cousins said it's the importation of fast food and bad on-the-run eating habits over the last decade or so.

Kind of like this?cl*t l*ck*r ??? My response to thread: mud wrestling

Yep, I thought it was kind of a freak show. Though a good student, I was so irreverent about the whole thing and I'm quite sure that irritated some of the tightly wound ones.

Thanks for the info. And yes, I know that Staten Island has a ridiculously low population to the tune of about 500,000 whereas all of the other boroughs have almost 2,000,000 people each. I've been told it's because it's hard to get to NYC by car from it and that it makes a better bedroom community for New Brunswick and that area.

We are not Sicilians of the Greco-Arab strain. Not the case in our family, sorry. In that case and having seen one of your ever-changing Avs, please don't produce any daughters.

I love it. Is that looking at Brooklyn or Staten Island? Is that bridge one level or double-decked, I've forgotten?

orange juice

Yeah, yeah, I know, that of a misogynist as you've previously said ... and that must mean something, right?.......sorry, but I like hanging on to my "valuables" and I've fielded such accusations before...

Eh...it looks like the marriage of the current Pontiac Grand Prix and the Nissan Altima. I'm not convinced. It appears to have the little fish-eye lamps up front again. The rear might be promising in terms of its proportions, but it would depend on how the taillamps are treated. Having just spent a week in an Allure up in Canada, I think that, with the new grille, I could very well own the current model. It made for a very relaxed week of motoring around Quebec.

Wow, were there any pretty and fairly slender Italian girls with brown hair/brown eyes who might actually finish their degrees and maybe even spoke the language? I guess I grew up on the wrong coast if there were?

driver

You are my effin' hero based on the incisiveness of the above post. I swear. Most of these generalizations have validity, that's why they career profile and use this stuff for career/personality fit tests. To me, ANY chick in an artsy and/or granolafied field of study is generally in the "stay away" category. They would have not liked someone like me, even in architecture, because I looked, acted and talked like a business major. They are out to "change things," make a useless statement, work at being different for the hell of it, or whatever. If they like you, I guess they might bed you, but to conservative me, a chick with piercings, tattoos, funky hair and the like would just seem...well...kind of dirty. Women in architecture - can be weird, reclusive, alternative, granola, and generally not personable. I enjoyed hanging with very few of them. They can be dour and combative. Oh, yes, the sorority and/or attractive chick who gets in there with the "Oooh, I think it would be neat to be an architect": give them, at the most, 2 years before they've moved over to a generic liberal arts curriculum. When I was in my grad program for unrelated bachelor's degrees, the only people I hung around with were: 1) those in the joint MArch/MBA program because they were normal, 2) those coming from other schools to do the +2 masters part because they were open to meeting new people as opposed to those coming straight through from the undergrad portion at U of I who kept to themselves, and 3) believe it or not, a few undergrads who actually sought out and wanted to hang with the grad students from other places because they found us intriguing or something. Women in engineering - about 80:20 between cold bitches:nice down to earth girls. I have worked in an A/E firm that wanted both disciplines so badly but the culture dictated that architects were not respected. The young female engineers weren't particularly friendly, except for one who liked my warped sense of humor and would send me racy and politically incorrect video attachments (but then, no surprise, she was doing at MBA at night at the same place I was). The rest of them there were rags. Women in business - in my mind, the best of the lot and I had no problem getting along with them...except for the obvious get-ahead-at-all-costs vibrator-kick-startin' dykey types. Most of the chicks in business were smart and practical though not stellar enough to be in the real rigorous fields. Most of them wanted to work in a company or at a firm and do some analytical or meaningful work. Most of them had no problems finding boyfriends and were easy to get along with, for the most part, minus the few sorority chicks who thought that their A-list status would carry them forever....always great to see grades passed back and the looks on their faces. Women in the health fields - eh, we disagree here, once on the bio-chem treadmill to med/dental school, you are on a different path. That becomes a fraternity in itself and once they get into upper division, it's really hard to cross paths with those people. They tend to hook up with each other as well as socialize. This extends into the work world. They operate in such a specific arena that they generally don't befriend people in other professions....plus, why would they want to hang around architects or bean counters who can't spend what they can at restaurants, while traveling and so forth. Women who become teachers - get along with them, but can also be kind of weird. I've found that hanging around 3rd graders all day long tends to stunt them chronologically. It's just not like talking to someone in your own age group any more. Case in point: Mary Kay Latourneau and her ugly mo-fo now husband --- what a train wreck that is! Ocnblu, babe, where are you? Revel in the stereotypes a bit, will you? :AH-HA_wink:

I couldn't stand most of them, but never let on...you know, preservation of the GPA. The other thing that always went through my head is what my friends in other departments would think if they sat in on one of our reviews/crits. So, my thinking went like this: black clothes, mock turtle necks, little round glasses, "gracefully" crossed legs and pissy highbrow language. Nah, won't be bringing my friends from other departments.

The ONLY time I wonder about this is if the car has been involved in an event that would cause it to go off the road...like down the side of an enbankment or wedged between trees in a forest...whatever...and the person had to get out of a mangled door when the door lock mechanism was in the locked position. Then, which design would make more sense?