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would think that it is a good idea to tow a late 80's Thunderbird with a Toyota Tercel? What kind of multiple brain injuries lead a person to the conclusion that this is a safe thing to do during rush hour on High Street in Clintonville? What kind of alien mind-control implant causes them to reason that putting a yellow flashing light on the hood of the Tercel will alert drivers behind them, and that no form of brake or turn signals on EITHER vehicle is the proper way to procede? Hoo hah, breathe deep.....blood pressure coming down......

Mohican is still pretty good, but not what it used to be. All the beer cans along the banks have kinda spoiled it. If you have your own canoe, go down to Ceaser's Creek Lake, it's a BIG lake, but there's lots of stuff to see, and some great fishing too. Plus it's pretty quiet most of the year.

Sounds almost like how Conkle's Hollow was up until a few years ago. Idiots all over the place, beer cans and fire circles, people carving their name into the rocks, all the usual things. I hate to say it, but that goober falling off the cliff there turned out to be a good thing. The park system took a real hard look at the trails and access after that. Yes, the new paved path is annoying, but at least it isn't the rutted and muddy web of destroyed forest the old one was. And they didn't fence off the Rim Trail, which is still the best view in central Ohio!

My brother did this with his Duster a few years back. You can drive with no tags to and from the inspection station, they won't let you trailer the vehicle in for some reason. You'll need a receipt for the motor/trans, but they run the number to check for stolens, so don't worry too hard if you don't have one, just make sure you contact the place and let them know before you show up. Sheetmetal won't even get looked at. All they did with my brothers car was check park and head lights, brake lights, reverse lights, and check the brake function. The hood was up for maybe 5 minutes, just long enough to read the engine VIN. BTW, do yourself a favor and have the engine tag and the rest of the motor clean. The guy after my brother brought in a car that was liberally coated in oil, and the inspectors went over his car with a fine-tooth comb.

Amen. Even FOOSE is doing the stupid things now.

There were two little birds, I think, and one larger one. The two small ones were some of the tapes that went into Soundwave, one had blue decals and the other red, but they were the same toy. The large one was Screech or something like that. Anyone remember the name of the one that transformed into the 6-wheel F1 car?

Very impressive, but my morbid sense of curiousity leads me to ask: Was your R/T a bigger number than your E/T? Just messing, but I'm sort of surprised the starter didn't have anything to say to you about it.

I counted 9 cop cars in the median between Georgesville Rd and Alum Creek Dr. Probably about that many again sitting behind speeders on the shoulder too. There was a cop actually sitting on the ramp from 270 north to 70 east radaring cars!

Makes it hard to get your mail. Do what my dad did, find some surplus 3/4in plate and get it bent into a mailbox shape, then install the rear plate, front door, and the little flag. The last time somebody tried to hit that thing, we found pieces of their aluminum bat 50 feet away! Bet it did a number on their wrists too....

Carroll Shelby used them on Daytonas, LeBarons, and some Shadows back in 89-90. Not exactly new stuff then either, first mention of the concept I found was for aviation use in the 30s, mostly experimental very high altitude piston-engined recon aircraft.

Euro-missile HOT round. Basically equivalent to a TOW, but smaller and more effective for non-armored targets.

Nipple-slip: Good Hot blonde on the right helps tuck hot blonde on the left's boobie back into bra: Better Leftie's slightly uncomfortable, "OMG she suggested the whole tugging on each others top pose" look: Priceless

Do you work there? My brother works in the Genco part of the warehouse on night shift. Seems to be a good place to work.

We saw the movie one at work last night. 55in big screen in the breakroom, and it pretty much got everyone. VERY effective commercial, somebody deserves a big promotion for that.

In the "Largest Number of Cars Involved in a Single Accident" sense, it is. 23 cars took damage to some degree, and if I recall correctly, 9 ended up finished for the day. In the "Largest Number of Cars Damaged During a Race" sense, well just about any race at Bristol or Martinsville should qualify with all 43 starters on the damaged list.

Ever seen a hawk catch a rabbit before? They come in at a steep angle, and flare hard just before they hit. They don't "swoop" down and scoop it up, it's more of a squash the bunny into the ground impact. There are no foot marks from the hawk because its talons are firmly imbedded into Bugs. The wings and tail make contact with the ground, and keep the bird upright. They stay there for a few seconds, while they make sure Mr. Hoppy is truly dead, then they fly off with the prey in one talon. Hawks usually attack from the rear, if the terrain allows. Rabbits have their eyes oriented to provide good vision all around with some stereo depth up front, but every animal is blind behind, and an attack from the front is the next best choice, mainly because the rabbit can't make as much of an evasive move as it could with a broadside attack. BTW the small tracks on the right on from a mouse. They hop on all fours in the deep snow, and are light enough not to drop through the surface.

Don't expect anything much beyond the usual family type cars to be on the lot. The good stuff tends to get pulled either by the employees, or gets snapped up right away. At any rate, they do these sales because they are expecting a bunch of cars to come in soon, and they want to maximize profits on the "mid-line" cars that are already on the lot. About 2 weeks from now will be the best time to find odd/rare stuff.

Getting hit by a car from behind: Probably damage to the rear of my car, maybe a sore neck. Getting t-boned by someone running a red: Totalled car, ambulance ride, possible death. Yes to cameras, but only if the ID of the driver can be verified.

Was it an American Standard toilet? My brother worked for them for a while, at the warehouse down by Groveport. He tells me they expected a 25-33% breakage rate on the stuff coming to the warehouse, and higher than that on the stuff that gets to the store.

She bites the end off, and lets everything inside dribble out until it's limp.

Does anyone know if there is anything in the composition of that E85 that would make it a bad idea to run in a car set up for alcohol fuel? I would assume some adjustment in the carb would be necessary, but would the 15% of gasoline present have any adverse effects on the fuel system?

Well, it seems that the CPD is finally going to start trying to catch car thieves! NBC 4 had a nice little story about how the rate of car thefts has gone up, and police are going to focus on the break-ins for a while. Boy, it sure is nice of them to take it seriously like that, and I for one could never think that it has anything to do with all those officer's personal cars being broken into at that substation on Livingston last week. HA!!!!

When I was in New York a few months ago, I saw THE Cizeta Morawder (dunno if it's spelled that way though). V16 supercar from the late 80s/early 90s, sort of looks like a cross between a Testarossa and a Diablo. The coolest car was a Duesenberg SJ Dual Cowl Phaeton, the Murphy bodied one. Probably the better part of $5 million, driving through downtown Fort Wayne in rush hour traffic. Homina, indeed.

My brother beat a loud muffler ticket in Cleveland last year. Just ask the cop was "excessive" means, and ask to see his decibel meter readout from when he made the determination that you were too loud. The judge wasn't too happy with the cop, I guess the guy was padding his resume or something that week!

Home Depot and Lowe's both carry small sheets (2x3 feet) of most gauge thicknesses.