I want your form of synesthesia. Read more
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Bob Sorokanich
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Yes, regarding fuel economy, cars are designed to do well on the test. GM’s 1-4 skip-shift in Corvettes and Camaros is a good example. However: a Corvette owner can drive his or her car the way the EPA drives it during testing, experiencing the 1-4 skip shift and likely getting EPA-esque fuel economy. The difference… Read more
Yeah, the lifespan of the emissions system will definitely be shorter once the car actually starts using all those complex, expensive devices it’s been bypassing. Read more
heh?
June, 2011: Bought a 1990 Mazda Miata in Mariner (smurf) Blue. Read more
Your answers are invalid.
Mercedes G-Wagen. Because you’re basically telling your kids “daddy/mommy cares more about looking like a badass than putting you in a reasonable car.” The drop-off lines for fancy NYC schools and day-cares are just full of them. I seethe. Read more
For anyone who’s read Charles Schulz’s biography, there’s a particularly aching poignance to this panel. Allegedly, when Schulz returned from fighting in WWII, the first place he went was to his father’s barber shop. Schulz’s dad, a notoriously stoic and hardworking German immigrant, wouldn’t stop to greet his son…
Until it gets eventually taken down, this YouTube channel is fantastic for reliving Good Eats nostalgia. Read more
You Could Buy This Non-Functional International For the Price of a Terra Cotta Planter Read more
The third one still eludes me most of the time. Read more
Seriously. Read more
<raises exquisitely buffed foot> Read more
Re: Strangeronfire’s comment: Look closer at the next paragraph down from the one you cite in that WaPo article. He’s not saying Rachel was masquerading as black when she attended Howard, he’s saying (using some awkward phrasing) that Howard accepted her as she was, i.e., white. Read more
...and you better bring your fancy “Road And/Or Track” posse if you come ‘round these parts now, fella. Read more
You just wrote a 12 word internet comment showing you have no fucking clue what “free speech” means. Bravo! Read more