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Odd sense of humor?

Once I was driving along and saw a Mercury family of all things. Mercury Sable in the driveway, and a Mercury Grand Marquis and '68 Cougar in the garage.

I live in an apartment complex with pods of single garages, so there is really no "best" per se. But out of my pod, I'd say I have the best since the other cars are an Aveo, a Grand Am, a Dodge Caravan, and a '97 Malibu. The most ghetto car I've seen around my complex is an early 90s Corolla with duct tape on the bumper, faded red paint, Wal-Mart chrome wheel covers, and rust all around.

I had no negative reaction to this car when I first saw the pics. The grille is maybe a little too tame, but it fits with the rest of the car. It's refreshing to see something different for a change.

I want to see the rear. Good to see the Caprice 9C1 back.

Awesome job caddycruiser, everything you did looks awesome. I like the Delaware centennial plates too...I wish my state would offer something like that.

I thought this was cute

I think one of the most disappointing things I have discovered about being an adult is that the petty childhood mentality never quite goes away.

Man, there are so many model lines that Chrysler could get rid of and it would have no major effect on sales. 654 Calibers?? 399 Dakotas?? I think Chrysler needs to take a hacksaw to its lineup leaving only the core sellers (minus the Viper and maybe a couple others), and make them the best they can be. There is too much overlap for such a small amount of sales.

The Taurus had a nice boost. Hopefully it can break 6000 next month.

I put a coat of wax on about a month and a half ago, so that should help the Lincoln go through its first Iowa winter (it was a Missouri car before). Next up: some Blizzaks.

Glad to see To Live & Die in LA and The Wraith on there. Also, good on them to include the '74 Gone in 60 seconds instead of the new one. I watched Duel for the first time tonight on YouTube...good early Spielberg flick. That chase from The Rock was wretched. Michael Bay....ugh. Some I would nominate: Terminator I - LTD & Cadillac chase A Beautiful Mind - '53 Buick chase, short but very atmospheric and excellent music The Driver - awesome 70's flick with an and a Chevy truck chasing a Trans Am through a warehouse...I can't believe this one wasn't on there

I see America's educational system has raised another fine, outstanding constituent.

This one sure went under the radar...this is a pretty significant announcement and hints that things may be much worse at Toyota than we have been aware. http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Toyota-Offlo...ml?x=0&.v=1

This is major win. Make it RWD, push the front wheel up 6-8 inches, and tone down the rub strip.

I'm also a light sleeper. The strange this is, I was never one as a kid or up through high school. I would go to around midnight or 1 and sleep like a rock until 11 AM on weekends. I still get plenty of sleep, but if someone enters a room or turns on a TV or makes some sort of noise, I will hear it and wake up. I had lots of problems in college with roomates watching movies or playing video games late at night and keeping me awake. Even just talking in the room next to mine will keep me awake.

Part of the reason I bought the LS is because of the lower beltline and lower seating position. Also, I miss cars like the third gen Camaros and Trans Ams where you practically sat on the ground. Sometimes I wonder if the trend toward higher seating positions is due to the increasing age of the baby boomer population. Arthritic knees don't do well in low bucket seats.

I used to have very late nights when I was in college. The week before my final review, I got a total of 9 hours of sleep over 7 days, and the last two before were all nighters. I have never been so tired in my life. Getting that little sleep is not good for the body. I think I began to hallucinate a couple times in the middle of the night while I was cutting with an x-acto... surprisingly, I still have my thumbs. These days, I usually go to bed between 12 and 12:30, and have to get up at 7 AM on weekdays. It's very hard for me to stay up past 2 AM now that I work full-time.

As a kid, my parents had a 1993 Mercury Villager. We owned it for about four years until we bought our Windstar. It had a fairly stylish exterior with a jade green and gray two-tone paint job, but I have so many bad memories of long trips stuck inside that van. Hands down, it had some of the most unergonomic, crappy seats in a modern car. They were flat, hard, and your rear end would fall asleep after an hour on them. Most long trips I would spend sprawled out uncomfortably over the entire backseat (which didn't recline, btw) because I was tired of sitting but had no other way to stretch out. The "cloth" seats felt like a burlap sack, and there was no soft touch plastic anywhere in the entire vehicle. I think I actually got rug burn from the seats one time. And since the 2nd row wasn't split, people getting out of the rear got clotheslined by the seat belt every time. Also, there was a rear vent control behind the driver's seat with a couple tiny vents that did nobody any favors except the person sitting next to it. If you were in the back seat you roasted for at least 20 minutes until the cool air from the front could get back there. This pictures aren't of our van, but it was exactly the same

Really, I've never had any problems with any of my bosses. All have been pretty reasonable, even-tempered guys. With my current bosses, the only thing that bugs me sometimes is when there is a meeting that they are leaving for in 15-30 minutes and they wait until then to tell me they need a bunch of things printed. It would be nice to have a little more forewarning.

I only know two people my age that write in cursive on a regular basis, and they have some of the worst handwriting as far as legibility goes. My grandparents still write in cursive quite a bit. I never use cursive anymore, but I can still do it even if it's not as fast as I can print. My printing is also sort of a hybird...I tend to connect t's and e's a lot, or double e's. Here's a sample of my chicken scratch

This is probably not in the best of taste, but I saw it elsewhere and did get a bit of a chuckle out of it...

'53 Buick vert

WTF, it is off center! I can tell you right know that with my long legs my right knee would trapped between the wheel and that center console and it would be digging into my shin. It's painful just to look at it.

Sometimes people from other states jokingly call us Iowegians. I don't really know the origin, since there aren't too many of Norwegian ancestry that live here (unlike Minnesota & North Dakota). We're mostly Germans, Danes, Polish, and Dutch, with a spattering of Italians (lots of Italians in Des Moines), Irish, and Czech (large presence in Cedar Rapids). I was always amazed in school how those who had the right look and were able to really abstract their work (yet do very little work in the end) always seemed to get kudos from the profs.