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Thank-you to Google. Chrysler Saratoga.

That picture makes him look like a young Tom Delonge....

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We can thank Ford for a LOT of things - the automotive landscape would likely be very different if not for the Model T, first of all.

Noticed from my recent trip to Montreal that there's a Crémazie station. From Transit Quebec:

Hells yeah. This s#@$ was hilarious. I didn't really know what to think, until I saw an interview with Samuel L Jackson about it. He knows how to make action movies good and funny at the same time (like Pulp Fiction). Kids - you two can call somebody as your favorite angry black actor! Soundboard of Samuel L Jackson.

You've got to remember: Canadians see Pontiac differently from Americans. Plus, Pontiac sells better here.

It's missing the factory sticker. I think it said: "This camera not for use down Cory's pants."

I found this Neutrogena "post-shave lotion" that works pretty well. (Yes, it's moisturizer, shaddup.) Helps your face deal, lessens the bumps. Smells decent too. http://neutrogena.com/men/MenDetails_140.a...roductLineID=10

BV: DON'T rush telling him that. A female roommate of mine fell in love very easily and told guys way too quickly. I watched her ruin quite a few relationships that way. Most guys seem to think that a girl who says "I love you" too fast is somehow damaged. Personally I don't see it, and if a girl made up her mind quickly and told me that I'd be flattered. Not sure if gay guys work the same way as straight guys in how they deal with the big "I love you", but I thought I should give you a heads up nonetheless.

Is insurance government subsidized in the US? That's the only way I can see rates this low... $90/month is RIDICULOUSLY low. I'm assuming the Solara was worth about $15k. At $90/mth, it would take over 12 years to repay that, never mind what it costs the insurance company just to stay running, paying employees and such. How are they still in business???

Age, location and driving history all have a lot to do with it. I've totalled a car, I'm 23 and I live in downtown Toronto. Three strikes right there. I pay $5700/year, which is actually down over what it was in previous years. Any quotes I get from other companies tend to be in the $8000/yr range.

Once when I was in a hurry to get to an exam I threw up the trunk of the Lumina very quickly. It bounced off the top "up" position, and came back down on the back of my head. That sucked, especially cause I had to then write an exam with a painful lump on my head. Go Toyota!

Nobody will merge into your car, since you are the thing everyone's staring at.

I've never quite known what to think of this. I didn't have anything on my dorm walls until my girlfriend put pictures of celeb women up there...

Take a look at the proposed plan for Toronto. article - expressways of toronto, built and unbuilt

I'm not sure that widening the DVP is the answer. The Don Valley has been raped badly enough already. It would be better, IMO, to separate the traffic better. Make Bayview a more attractive alternative by weeding out unnecessary accesses. It's already a pretty good way to get to the 401 without using the DVP. Also, BUILD the SCARBOROUGH EXPRESSWAY, for @#$&s sake... The Gardiner was supposed to continue past the south end of the DVP, connecting to 2A at the other side of Scarborough. They had the Gardiner extending past the DVP already, and it ended about 1km later, nearl Leslie street. They knocked the end down! The pillars for the raised highway still stand to this day. It was already built, WHY KNOCK IT DOWN??? The right of way for the Scarborough expressway still exists too - it would save a lot of people from having to drive up the DVP to get to the 401 - they would just take the SE instead. Take a look at my morning commute, and imagine how much it would help. map

After a particularly aggravating commute, I decided to post this list of the things that annoy me. These things may not seem like "bad driving", but they reduce the efficiency of our roads, and waste everyone's time. Feel free to post your own pet peeves as well. This list is expressway-specific. 1. People who don't get over to the right. You are supposed to drive in the right most lane unless passing. When the highway is packed, and you are constantly passing, go ahead and drive in the left lane. Expressways would flow so much better if everyone just moved over. Then I wouldn't have to guess what the guy in the middle lane is going to do when he encounters the slower guy in the middle lane in front of him. 2. People who don't pay attention to their surroundings. I don't think that going 170 km/h on the highway is a good idea, but I'm still going to get out of the way of anyone doing so, for the safety of everyone on the highway. Pulling out into the left lane because you're doing 110, passing someone going 100, is not a good idea when the guy trying to do 170 in the left lane is about to slam into your car because you didn't look. 3. The greed of the Ontario government. (407) This may not make much sense to anyone not from Ontario, but here goes - we had an expressway set up to go around all the congestion of the western Greater Toronto Area and meeting up with the 401 in Mississauga. The right of way was reserved for years. It was to be the extension of the 403. At the same time, a right of way was reserved for the 407 toll highway, starting at the Ford plant in Oakville and going North, eventually continuing around the eastern GTA. Instead of building the sorely needed bypass of Burlington, Oakville, and southern Mississauga, they sold the land to the 407. So now we have a toll highway there which is sorely underused at non-peak hours, and still has traffic jams at peak hours. They also have some of the most idiotic management known to man. I refuse to use this highway ever again after the way they treated me, and I hate them for the way they've destroyed Ontario's road network. I seriously considered putting a brick through the management office window after our little encounter. If I wasn't an engineer who can't afford to have a criminal record I probably would have. 4. People who don't use cruise on the freeway, and can't maintain a constant speed with their foot. I hate pulling out to pass someone, just to have them match my speed. Now I look like the moron. Thanks. I also hate being in the right lane, with someone slow coming up, and having someone pull out to pass me, to match my speed and box me in. If everyone maintains their speed, things are much more predictable and everyone can pass nicely. I don't care what speed you go (within reason), just PICK ONE. 5. People who accelerate and brake on the highway instead of the ramps. Yeah. Let's merge onto the 100 km/h limit highway at 60 km/h with a string of people behind you. That's not going to cause chaos at all. Idiots. Braking before getting off the highway and onto the ramp lane is not as bad, but still stupid. 6. Trucks who pull out to pass each other with a 2 km/h speed differential. Thanks for taking up 2 lanes with your giant trucks. 7. People who don't signal lane changes. I don't know if they just forget, or they figure people don't look... I think that's it for now. Thanks for listening. Let's hear some of yours...

Most dorm rooms don't have much space on the walls for decorations. Mine had a big wooden bar going all around the outside with lamps and cabinets and such mounted to it. Really the only place for posters was up near the ceiling and ON the ceiling.

Sometimes you just have to fight it. One of my best friends moved to Vancouver Island in British Columbia. To get an idea of the distance, imagine living in Detroit and having a friend in Seattle. We cherish our time together now. She's come back to Ontario for two months to plan her sister's wedding and we have been spending as much time together as possible. If this girl wanted more kids and still lived in Ontario I would totally be all over that. I don't even mind that she already has a daughter. Kid's 6 now, and is one of the best behaved 6-year-olds I've ever met. Circumstances being what they are though, she's out there, and wants to live her life after her daughter leaves the house. She doesn't want any more kids, and I want at least one child of my own. So, we are friends. Which is much better than nothing at all - and we still make it work across all that distance.

When given perspective (guy next to it), of course it looks full-size. I expected it to. It's just when I see it without perspective that it makes me think of the Colorado/Canyon.

I really like it. Although the wheels look to be a direct ripoff of the Altima SE-R.

hmm... maybe I should have said, "I didn't think she was THIS hot until now." She's always sort of been one of those pretty women who flew under the radar for me.

*bump* This thread needed this picture. Ive never thought Shania Twain was that hot until I found this picture.