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No, but you called for physical pain against her...for starters, which is pretty outrageous, still:

80s rocked. Best. Decade. Ever.

Sport Tourer or Megane. Really, just pick the ones that aren't available stateside in any iteration.

You can be a huge cat/animal lover and still maintain a level head. Do not ask me how I know this.

Perfect.

Yes, as the owner of 4 cats, I clearly know nothing about them. What does that even have to do with anything? Even if she came over and killed MY cat, I would be extremely angry with her...furious probably, but I'm not going to call for her execution!! What the hell is wrong with you people?!?!?! Bingo. A life is a life. So many in this thread condemn her for taking a non-human life, and then want to take her life for it? You don't like someone, so they should be dead. That's sick and twisted. Wrong. Cats do NOT depend on humans for welfare. Cats are not dogs; cats can and do take care of themselves. Even those who have spent their whole lives inside a house--the hunting instincts never go away. Hmmm...yes, clearly she is the incarnation of the devil, purely evil with no conscience whatsoever. Can't be mentally ill...no way, that would be too complicated for our overly simplistic view of the world.

Of course I believe in the Karmic concept...but isn't Karma that good/bad things happen to good/bad people? Karma will take care of itself without a bunch of hot-heads taking matters into their own hands.

I love how so many of you are calling for her execution--you're no better than she is, apparently.

Not in our lifetime. Maybe in a few million years? Hawaii will become part of California long before California breaks off.

Yup, those too. "Botts'" is the proper spelling, though, after Dr. Elbert Dysart Botts. Caltrans was also one of the first to do reflective safety features...ever notice in old center median curbs how there's a pattern of recessed rectangles? That was to make the curbs more visible at night--give the median curb a bit of a pattern to distinguish the raised surface from the smooth roadway.

No. There was very little culture shock involved. I really went from not relating in the least with most people in the midwest, to actually feeling like intelligent life really does exist. Both of you misunderstand. Caltrans built the Arroyo Seco Parkway (Pasadena Freeway) in the 1930s and early 1940s as the third freeway in the nation, first west of the Mississippi. Caltrans was in the process of building a whole network of parkways/freeways at this time, not just one or two, and as a result needed uniform design standards. There were no federal guidelines for freeway design, so Caltrans created their own. When the FHWA was created and began looking at design standards for the rest of the country, they essentially lifted the Caltrans standards, with minimal changes. That's why California freeways have some quirks to them compared to the rest of the country--it would be far too expensive for California to make the minor changes to fit with the FHWA standards, so FHWA allowed them to grandfather in most of the design. Originally, highway signs were white on black. FHWA was going to adopt the same, until tests showed that white on green is more visible in fog conditions. California eventually converted to a porcelain enamel sign (greater longevity compared to sheeting) of a darker green than the rest of the nation in part because of greater contrast. I can assure you that I find the signs out here easier to read at night than the lighter green retroreflective sheeting used elsewhere, which I find gets washed out in glare at night. California also invented the 4-Level Stack interchange, at the junction of the 110 and 101 just northwest of downtown Los Angeles. Caltrans invented the overhead guide signs as we know them today, with lighting, maintenance catwalks, and a mixture of capital and lowercase lettering. More info: http://www.kriske.com/highway/signs/signs.html

Maybe...it certainly would have stood out more. Plus, she'd have to walk into the barrier first BEFORE falling in. Either way, if she fell in with the cones/signs, there'd be no grounds for a lawsuit. This is why procedures need to be followed by municipal employees.

...admit what? That I'm not from California? blu, I hadn't even moved out here until 2.5 years after I joined the site. But it really doesn't matter...being a midwestern transplant really makes me just that much more Californian.

I have to ask...why stop at Victorville?

Correct, but this is where I belong. I'm very fortunate to have figured that out as soon as I did.

Well, why else would my response have been so over-the-top? Do come to LA sometime...you'll understand that no one takes things so seriously out here. Well if it's a litany of fart jokes, yes. I like to think my sense of humor is just a bit more sophisticated than that...but I don't really go to comedy shows, anyway. Too expensive.

Well the 300M was the next-gen Vision, sent to Chrysler when Eagle got the axe.

Yup, very close to the concept. I love this car.

Hahaha...yeah right. More like I call it like I see it...SKY = "baby Corvette" design. Always has.

I bet your mom thought so, too!

No, I was in on the joke too, but "pretending to go off" doesn't convey well over the internet. Huh? Haven't you used up your allotment of non-sequitors for the week? No, you're right. We didn't invent fast food. We didn't invent the drive-thru. We didn't pioneer America's freeways. We certainly don't obsess about the car living out here...commute times, smog, congestion, no none of that plays a large role. We don't have a huge diversity of local fast-food chains. We never had drive-thru milk venders after milk men went by the wayside and prior to widespread pasteurization and supermarket sales. We don't have a large enthusiast community, we only buy bland utilitarian vehicles. You won't see a yellow Lambo on Rodeo Drive, and the guy who owns Habibi doesn't drive a Bentley. We don't have Mulholland Drive, or Pacific Coast Highway, or any of these other crazy things. Nah, none of that exists. Huh. Our pollution standards really aren't that bad. No worse than those of many other populous states.

I don't think we actually disagree...I was commenting more on the cause-and-effect. The flush didn't cause what leads to hard shifting; that was already occurring. I drive a 2001 Aurora 3.5...trust me I know a lot about solenoids and hard shifts. Reg, again, what trans is in your trucklet?

Nah, they won't dumb it down that much. They're going for avante-guarde with this one.

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