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[TAKeyser]

That was true for all Detroit Big 3 products until the Japanese started including them as standard on everything, back in the early 80's. Of course it took Detroit over a decade to catch on....

hey don't mess with Detroit

 

[wayneb]

Not Detroit, just the (not so) Big (anymore) 3! ;D

 

[akueck]

I got really good at parallel parking in college. The street was always packed and there were winter restrictions from (I think) November through March. Even side on even days... So I had to move the car every day (I could not afford off-street parking) in the winter, in the snow, on a hill. Once I got the car into a space about 2 inches longer than the car itself--without bumping either car. The only way that happened was that my back tires got stuck in the snow pile in front of the car behind me, the front tires slid in the snow, and the car just pivoted sideways into the spot. Took forever and a day to get it out the next day.

Course with those restrictions you'd think they'd plow the empty side, you know, occasionally. Nope. Thanks NY!

 

[TAKeyser]

When I went to Truck Driving School in Wisconsin, I was so happy on the last day when they asked who lived in Ohio and I didn't have to raise my hand because all the students from Ohio had to stay an extra day to learn how to Parallel Park a Semi w/Trailer because Ohio required it on their test. F**K that, I couldn't imagine having to do that.

 

[Deacon Aegis]

I'm rather proud of myself in getting my first toon to 70. (I don't have Litch King or Cata) Of course, Now I need to drop the cash if I want to level up further. Dang it.

Actually, I think Blizzard is offering a free upgrade to the Litch King expansion if you get a friend or somebody currently playing to send you an invite back to the game called a "scroll of ressurection". Unfortunately, since I'm not currently playing, I can't send one. I'm trying to get my brother-in-law to send one to my wife and to me so I can get a special bonus myself. It also seems that if you can get someone to send you one, you get a free week of play time, plus you can raise any toon you have to level 80 instantly, even if you start one off at first level. That makes it rather simple to get one up to 85. I may hit a point where I'm starting to delete level 85 toons to make new ones if I do too many more characters.

On to another note, I saw that some folks here were truck drivers. I drove for CR England for a couple of years and also had to do the parallel park manuever with the rig. It really isn't that difficult if you learn the right method. By the time I was done over the course of two days, I could easily put that truck exactly where I wanted it. =)

 

[ChadK]

Actually, I think Blizzard is offering a free upgrade to the Litch King expansion if you get a friend or somebody currently playing to send you an invite back to the game called a "scroll of ressurection". Unfortunately, since I'm not currently playing, I can't send one. I'm trying to get my brother-in-law to send one to my wife and to me so I can get a special bonus myself. It also seems that if you can get someone to send you one, you get a free week of play time, plus you can raise any toon you have to level 80 instantly, even if you start one off at first level. That makes it rather simple to get one up to 85. I may hit a point where I'm starting to delete level 85 toons to make new ones if I do too many more characters.

On to another note, I saw that some folks here were truck drivers. I drove for CR England for a couple of years and also had to do the parallel park manuever with the rig. It really isn't that difficult if you learn the right method. By the time I was done over the course of two days, I could easily put that truck exactly where I wanted it. =)

But I'm an active player. I may look into it anyhow.

I dunno about truck driving, but I can do a reverse serpentine in a Crown Vic at 15 mph.

 

[Penguinetti]

I'm pretty negative today since it is April 10th and it's snowing!!! It was like 80 degrees a week or two ago!!! WTF, I want to plant my Hops and the dang whether will not cooperate.

Yea, but....

... it's Michigan. I mean, I live in Maine and we get cold weather too, but.

Michigan.
Also, do you remember a year or two back, we got snow in May.

MAY.

You know, right after I joined the forum I thought "Why did I pick HunnyBunz as a user name? It sounds stupid & seems a little femish."

Oh well. It's still kind of fun when those of the opposite gender say "Hey HunnyBunz."

I think its a great name, HunnyBunz My poker nickname was Cutie, so I had plenty of straight dudes calling me Cutie out in public afterwards.

On an unrelated note, I remember being the young guy when I joined the forum. Guess I'm getting old now...

What, come on... I can't be the youngest guy on here now... Besides -- and maybe it's cause of the hat -- but you don't look that old in your avatar..

Wow, really? You're making ME feel old (you're ten years my junior, even my car is older than you) ...he was in the Boomer generation, well before your time...

...Oh, and do you know what the definition of "old" is?

The Definition of Old:
The definition of "old"
for any speaker who is stating the definition of "old"
is:
"Fifteen Years Older Than I Am Now."

Apparently, according to Alchemist's definition, you're technically not old, then, when compared to me. Neither is your car.
Besides, like someone I know says, you're not old until you can't get outta bed in the morning cause you broke your hip in your sleep.

Well, of course you do. The female characters are much nicer to look at. Why wouldn't you want to play one?

Yes, but although I am careful not to out and out lie, I play and interact with others in such a way that I let people assume that the person behind the keyboard is female when I am playing a female toon. and visa versa for male toons.

It's called Role-playing, and I guess you're pretty good at it.

I can't do it. Although I whole-heartedly agree that the females are much more appealing to the eyes (as is in all cases of life), I feel wierd RPGing as anything other than male, or at least asexual. I'm not sure why. There are definitely plenty of pics of me dressed as a girl (my best friend's sister did us up in make-up for a theatre make up class in college; we were some hot ladies).

...and my whole family's riddled with us sinister types on both sides, my brother the full-on righty is a minority if you consider all my aunts and uncles, Mom's ambi-right and I'm ambi-left. My dad was a full-on lefty and far as he ever told me, never caught any crap for it in school or from the religious ones in the family,

...I'm mostly ambi. I still eat by holding utensils with my left hand more than my right, and I can switch hands at will when using hand tools. I was also an expert at a left handed kill shot back in the days that I played handball. But pencil or pen are only useful to me when I wield them with my right hand.

Wow.. do you think it's hereditary for people to come out of the womb lefty or righty? And then we 'learn' the other from experience or out of necessity?

I'd like to have been a lefty, or moreso, ambi. It really would've come in handy when I had surgery on my right shoulder.



heh... I said 'handy'... lol.

That short question could result in a long answer, since my career working directly for NASA spanned 21 years (not counting the time that I spent at JPL), and I still do some NASA related work as a contractor.

But the short summary list of "stuff" that I've done includes:
1) Flight Controller at Mission Control in Houston for the Space Shuttle in the early days (pre-1984).
1a) Volunteer "guinea pig" for vestibular research and testing studies coincident with the early shuttle program (i.e. I got to know every cubic inch of the cabin in NASA's KC-135 "vomit comet," since I was one of the less sensitive test subjects).
2) Space shuttle payload accommodations engineer at NASA Goddard.
3) Attached payload accommodation manager for the Space Station Program
(back in the early design era - before any components were built).
4) Earth Remote Sensing engineering/science for various microwave instruments and IR-optical systems (things like developing the sensors that were incorporated on weather and climate satellites, and calibration of the instruments on Landsat satellites).
5) etc. (any more and this will no longer qualify as a short summary!)

OOOoooooo.... the Vomit Comet.... always thought it would be fun to go up in that.
And then probably discover that I have weak stomach...

Wow. Wow. You have done a lot of very important things in life. My father in law always says the smartest and toughest people in the world are the Polish. He's very proud of his people. He always tells me of Polish accomplishments. I'll have to have him add these to the list.
I'd like to do important things in my life. Nothing to gain recognition or anything; I just want to know that I did something worth doing.

Also, I agree with skunkboy; I'd LOVE to jump on the vomit comet, see how much I could handle.

Man, I completely understand. Actually I haven't played the game much in several months. I've got like four or five level 85's on the alliance side of things, though I may try some fun on the horde side. I'm just burned out on the tedium of the game. Once you hit a certain point, it becomes an over and over and over sort of thing. Running dailies, heroics, yadda... Just gets old and everything you struggle so hard to accomplish in one major expansion becomes a joke to do in the next. But there is a certain allure to running out in those areas where few player are at and explore some of the old familiar haunts that were so challenging the first time around.

Oh, now I understand they are going to do a race based on Pandas... Should be fun. I'm gonna see if I can snag up the name, "Panda Pal" Hehehe

Yea, I have one toon at 54, and all the rest of my 10 toons are 20 and less (most being less than 10). I should be playing to reach lvl 85, but really, I like taking my tauren and just exploring lands. I took him through lvl 50 alliance territories when he was lvl 38 or 40 just to see if i can sneak around and see things while surviving. I get more kicks out of that than I do questing.

Yea, Panda monks. should be interesting. They're neutral, so they can play both sides, but you have to choose at lvl 10 or something. And. They're pretty much based off of the panda in Kung Fu Panda. They specialise in food, lol. Also, they're homeland is a giant turtle or something, so that's cool.

QUOTE=ChadK;188723]But I'm an active player. I may look into it anyhow.
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If you need / want it, I can send you a scroll of resurrection. I don't really know how it works, but I've definitely seen the button on my friends list page.

MmmmmHmmmm...

Frankly, I need to drive stick to keep my brain happy.

In John Irving's A Widow For One Year...the narrator has something to say about any guy who can't drive a stick...I concur.

Heh... my wife is great with stick; but she can't drive manual transmission cars.

Everytime we go out and we take my car, I have to be DD cause she doesn't want to learn stick shift.

I dunno about truck driving, but I can do a reverse serpentine in a Crown Vic at 15 mph.

That's pretty cool. Now you have to learn to parallel park by speeding and then stopping/swerving into the parking spot

I can't do any tricks with my car, but I do love my car. I bought it with the specific intention of keeping it until it no longer works.

Here she is!
With her new bumper:

And before the new bumper (at my buddy's house):

 

[Penguinetti]

Also, sorry for the wall of text. I try to keep things connected.

 

[Altricious]

If you need / want it, I can send you a scroll of resurrection. I don't really know how it works, but I've definitely seen the button on my friends list page.

Ditto. Apparently you're limited to sending 2 a day: one from WoW directly and the other from battlenet I think.

 

[Penguinetti]

Ditto. Apparently you're limited to sending 2 a day: one from WoW directly and the other from battlenet I think.

So to all the WoW-ers on here:

I'm Dogbull, Tauren on Uldaman. Feel free to say hi to me. I've got a few other toons, but I refuse to play them for now until I make it to lvl 85.

 

[ChadK]

So to all the WoW-ers on here:

I'm Dogbull, Tauren on Uldaman. Feel free to say hi to me. I've got a few other toons, but I refuse to play them for now until I make it to lvl 85.

If it saves me the money of buying Litch King, I'd appreciate it. My main is Zaakril, a troll druid, on Ysera. She's capped out at 70, but I'm still working on her rep and capping out her Jewelcrafting.

Yes, it is roleplaying. These young whippersnappers don't know about roleplaying cause they didn't cut their teeth on the red box like us old folk.

Nice bumper. Are you converting her to a rally car?

 

[wayneb]

Also, I agree with skunkboy; I'd LOVE to jump on the vomit comet, see how much I could handle.

You may get the chance, sort of. It is my understanding that someone is trying to develop an amusement park ride that will give you more than a second or two of zero-g as part of the experience. It will be something like the Superman The Escape at Magic Mountain in California -- only a lot taller!

I can't do any tricks with my car, but I do love my car. I bought it with the specific intention of keeping it until it no longer works.

Dude! It's a 'Roo!! Good luck with that; you may die before the car does!

I just gave away my '96 Outback (with 298K+ miles on the ODO), because my son wrecked it, getting up close and personal with a tree while trying to avoid a deer. The guy I gave it to basically pulled out all the dented sheet metal, straightened the bumper and replaced one headlight assembly... and he now drives it into work here every day. Most Subarus will last nearly indefinitely if you do the scheduled maintenance on them.

 

[ChadK]

Dude! It's a 'Roo!! Good luck with that; you may die before the car does!

I just gave away my '96 Outback (with 298K+ miles on the ODO), because my son wrecked it, getting up close and personal with a tree while trying to avoid a deer. The guy I gave it to basically pulled out all the dented sheet metal, straightened the bumper and replaced one headlight assembly... and he now drives it into work here every day. Most Subarus will last nearly indefinitely if you do the scheduled maintenance on them.

Yeah, there's a reason my friend and I play "count the Subarus" when we go up in the mountains.

 

[Penguinetti]

If it saves me the money of buying Litch King, I'd appreciate it. My main is Zaakril, a troll druid, on Ysera. She's capped out at 70, but I'm still working on her rep and capping out her Jewelcrafting.

I'll send you one tonight after work; see if it'll work. If not, I'll send you a PM or something.

My guy's doing leatherworking, and I'll tell you what; I'm a little behind on those skills. My cooking, first aid, skinning and fishing are pretty high up, tho. And my rep needs plenty of work. I've made a bet with my brother in law that I could make lvl 85 before Mists of Panderia comes out at the end of this year.

You may get the chance, sort of. It is my understanding that someone is trying to develop an amusement park ride that will give you more than a second or two of zero-g as part of the experience. It will be something like the Superman The Escape at Magic Mountain in California -- only a lot taller!

That would be AWESOME. There was a show on tv that just showed the USA's most terifyingly awesome rides, including one where they just drop you into a net from way up high, no strings attached. I'd love to try that as well.

Do you know where they plan on building this fantasmical ride of fabulosity?

Dude! It's a 'Roo!! Good luck with that; you may die before the car does!

I just gave away my '96 Outback (with 298K+ miles on the ODO), because my son wrecked it, getting up close and personal with a tree while trying to avoid a deer. The guy I gave it to basically pulled out all the dented sheet metal, straightened the bumper and replaced one headlight assembly... and he now drives it into work here every day. Most Subarus will last nearly indefinitely if you do the scheduled maintenance on them.

Nice bumper. Are you converting her to a rally car?

Yeah, there's a reason my friend and I play "count the Subarus" when we go up in the mountains.

Haha, yea it is! I'm on newenglandsubarus.com. I'm the black sheep over there for having (a) a Baja, and (b) wanting to lift it and make it rugged rather than performance based. I don't think I'll ever make her an actual rally car, but I wouldn't mind being able to take her off-roading a bit. A little luxury, too (I just installed seat heaters so I can have a warm tush).

Your son is lucky he didn't get too hurt. Lucky he was in a subaru, I guess. You're not the first person who said they racked it up in miles, either. One guy told me he bought an outback (I think outback) for $500 from an old lady cause it had 198k miles on it. He drove it to 300k miles. It's a big reason as to why I was okay buying this one at 99.9k miles for $10k.


And to be honest, it's like everyone up here has at least one subaru in their family.

 

[ChadK]

I'll send you one tonight after work; see if it'll work. If not, I'll send you a PM or something.

Haha, yea it is! I'm on newenglandsubarus.com. I'm the black sheep over there for having (a) a Baja, and (b) wanting to lift it and make it rugged rather than performance based.

But rugged IS performance. Just a different kind of performance. And thanks for the scroll of rez--if it works, that is--even if it doesn't, actually. I appreciate the thought/effort.

 

[wayneb]

And to be honest, it's like everyone up here has at least one subaru in their family.

Same here. If there is an unofficial "state car" for Colorado, it is the Subaru.

 

[akueck]

We LOVE our Outback. Took it on the road trip across the country last summer, and have missed it ever since. We even bought a '97 Legacy for our car in New Zealand. Luckily we will be reunited with our Outback in a week and a half. [we left it in Philadelphia]

When we visited Seattle we were told that the Outback was the official car of Seattle-area lesbians. Who decides these things?

 

[TheAlchemist]

Garlic Mustard
I know, it's several pages back by now...
Very bitter. Anybody ever used it in a wort?

As for the cellar door incident...yes, it was "an accident."

 

[ChadK]

Garlic Mustard
I know, it's several pages back by now...
Very bitter. Anybody ever used it in a wort?

As for the cellar door incident...yes, it was "an accident."

It may be a couple pages back, but it's totally in the spirit of the thread to resurrect it. I guess it depends on the aroma, but you could use just about anything bitter in lieu of hops.

 

[Matrix4b]

We LOVE our Outback. Took it on the road trip across the country last summer, and have missed it ever since. We even bought a '97 Legacy for our car in New Zealand. Luckily we will be reunited with our Outback in a week and a half. [we left it in Philadelphia]

When we visited Seattle we were told that the Outback was the official car of Seattle-area lesbians. Who decides these things?

I love Suburus. I have a 2002 Impreza Outback. I have found that each has one flaw. Different for each car. Sometimes it is a recurring but otherwise they are awesome. If you can live with the flaw or get the flaw fixed inexpensively then you have a car that will last forever. I think that Fate says that you can't have THAT good of a car and we need something to drive people away from them and to other companies. That is the true reason for the single flaw.

Matrix