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AC/DC popped into my recommendations. New released song. Not much different than their other songs. Still a rockin' song the only way they know how! I could never tire of AC/DC no matter how many songs they release that are similar in feel. I love the video even more.

@riviera74 The last couple of weeks there has been a ton of fights in the NBA between the players. NHL level of intensity of fights. https://www.essentiallysports.com/nba-basketball-news-watch-jimmy-butler-challenges-nikola-jokic-to-a-fight-in-a-fit-of-rage-after-ugly-nba-collision/ https://www.foxsports.com.au/basketball/nba/nba-2021-lebron-james-ejected-isaiah-stewart-detroit-pistons-vs-los-angeles-lakers-fight-video-reaction/news-story/dc27119bc3cfef795669885a72ec3314 https://ftw.usatoday.com/2021/11/jazz-pacers-rudy-gobert-myles-turner-fight Lebron James calling his suspension bullshyte and also involved with tossing out 2 fans. The antics of these fans being tossed out is very reminiscing of hockey fans in a beer league. Keep in mind, the NHL is just one step above a beer league. And that is today's NHL. In the '70s and '80s, the NHL WAS a beer league... Ill stand by my statement. LOL

I was thinking about this post. And although I said one thing about the future of the Challenger and Charger if these cars stayed as V8s not surviving. I must agree to say that as of now, the faction for E Muscle form Dodge in the form of BE Charger and Challenger aint very big and therefore the future of electric Chargers and Chargers not surviving is also a possibility. But, if we do go by the past, Charger and Challenger have died staying the course... But then again, Challenger didnt last long when it tried to re-invent itself as a Mitsubishi badge job. But then again, the Challenger that WAS given to us as a badge job wasnt much of a Dodge or a Challenger... The Dodge muscle car was a specially designed and marketed vehicle in the 1960s and early 1970s. SRT has proven to be a highly specialized performance juggernaut since the Viper's introduction and they are tasked to re-invent the Dodge muscle car. Ford's performance engineering successfully engineered and marketed a turbo 6 cylinder GT named race car and an electric SUV named Mustang. Chevrolet's Corvette team has successfully re-invented the Corvette into a mid-engined car and has made people lust over a Ferrari styled powerplant and not only that the mere thought of an electric Corvette and people have been dreaming about what those performance specs will be... I think SRT engineers and Dodge's marketing team have got this since SRT cars are no slouches compared to their cross town rivals in Michigan and Dodge's marketing team SURPASSES them by several car lengths... Yeah...I think E Muscle will be popular. I aint worried about the future of BE Challengers and Chargers. Dont get me wrong, Im already lamenting the death of the supercharged Hemi. But it is what it is.

Apparently, spell check could also be a...whore. In a literal spelling of the word whore. I would believe the millennials call something like that 'meta'.

The global thinking about the internal combustion engine is not changing? What? Performance vehicles? Or are we specifically talking about retro styled pony cars from Chevy, Ford and Dodge and specifically the Charger and Challenger? Because sure, the Charger and Challenger VISUALLY does not cater to futurism. But what powers these vehicles must cater to the future because if it doesnt, the nameplates will just disappear...again. We could talk about the past all we want, but when Chryco failed to address the fuel crisis and the insurance issues of the 1970s concerning these very vehicles, these very nameplates just died. The Charger was renamed into something else as to not elude to the idea of muscle and the Challenger just went away. The Challenger did come back as a Mitsubishi only to die off again shortly after only for Dodge to introduce a new sporty coupe with Mitsu's collaboration. A twin turbo AWD 6 cylinder sports car. And it did fairly well in the decade that it was introduced. Sure, it took Ford to go retro back into time with its Mustang that sparked the Challenger and Charger comeback along with a resurrected Camaro... But are we sure that 'go back into time' movement was a muscle car one? There was a Mustang and a GT40. True. But there was also a failed GTO resurrection. There was a retro PT Cruiser and a retro Chevy HHR that were sales hits. But the retro Chevy SSR V8 was a market failure. So was a V8 Thunderbird that was a failure. The New Beetle and the Mini were sales hits. None of which had V8s in them... Or RWD for that matter. The insane push with supercharged V8s making 700 and 800 plus horsepower has made the Charger and Challenger into legends. But if Dodge does not navigate the future of gasoline as a fuel for propulsion and especially the price of it heading into the future, and Dodge will only be looking at the past glory of the V8, Im afraid that the Challenger and Charger nameplates will be disappearing again. Oh sure, plenty of folk are buying these cars now, but will they WHEN gasoline prices are no longer cheaper in price than drinking water? So... A suggestion of keeping the Challenger and Charger as internal combustion vehicles is a must. But keeping them as V8s wont be feasible for folks that wont be able to afford the price of V8 consumption of gasoline. Therefore, in keeping with tradition and keeping these cars as gasoline powered cars, the suggestion would be to make these into turbo 2.0 4 cylinder cars? Unless the argument is that gasoline prices will not increase. But, we do know that if it aint the gas prices that will do in the V8, the pollution related regulations will. And not only will those regulations kill the V8, but the internal combustion engine itself. Yes, there is a pushback against the death of the V8 and the internal combustion engine and consequentially the nameplates that these V8s inhabit... The King is dead! Long live the King!

The NBA is the new NHL

But those particular 90 year old guys have long since past, 90 years ago. Oh....you mean 90 year olds tah-day... I get you. I get you. Why put these guys in electrics doing 4 seconds to 60 and shock them (pun intended) when you could be putting them in supercharged Hellcat SUVs instead. Something familiar to them. They were in their mid 30s after all when these dinosaurs roamed the earth.

SWEEEEEEEEEET E-MOOOOOOOH-SHAWN! SWEEEEEEEEEET E-MOOOOOOOH-SHAWN! From this To this Im ready for it! Oh sure, I will surely miss that supercharged V8 snarl and growl, but it is time to move on from it. Will "e-muscle" be able to replace real muscle? There is a 'yes' answer to that question and a 'no' answer to that question. A big fat no when it comes to sound and rumble and feel. A big fat yes as it will scoot and get you where you wanna go just as fast and cool as the muscle it will be replacin'. It will look like a Dodge muscle car. It wont sound like one. But the world is unrecognizable since when the original Mopar Hemis, Ford Flatheads, Olds Rockets, Buick Nailheads, Poncho and Chevy rat motors ruled the earth. The world had changed dramatically when the Challenger and Camaro came back from the dead 15 years ago and the world has taken another huge turn to change even further the last 5 to change it even more from the last 15. We could sulk and continue to sing sad tunes and ask ourselves Where have all the good times gone or embrace the change and roll with it... Id rather roll with it... Yeah...it aint KISS, its Green Day, its 2021 with COVID in the air, but its still a damn good cover of a damn good song. Might as well enjoy that Rock is still played and enjoyed by many folk. Same with Dodge E-Muscle. Dodge Muscle Cars WILL live on. With electric powertrains... Hopefully Dodge makes their electric offerings with the same cool factor that they did their V8 muscle car offerings from the '60s and '70s. Remember, Dodge muscle did go away in the mid '70s. It did come back with the Viper. It wasnt a V8 and it was only one model. Remember, Dodge in the 1990s had given us a Neon. It was fun and fast in SRT4 trim... But we did laugh at it. Oh how we have forgotten???!!! The SRT4 Neon... Like I said, the world had changed big time from the 60s to the 90s and reversed itself back into a 600s state of mind in the 2010s. But the 2020s are hear and the world has changed again. But this time around, the change is for something new. And it looks promising.

To be honest, even some of his earlier stuff was meh. To be honest, some of his later stuff was just as funny as his funniest earlier stuff. Daddy Day Care and Haunted House were great family oriented movies. He was great in Norbit and the Nutty Professor to which showcased his acting prowess in doing multiple characters. He experimented with that with Coming to America along with Arsenio Hall to which Arsenio was also great in. Coming to America 2 I haven seen, but as with all sequels, especially sequels to movies that are a couple decades apart, I suspect was probably not that good. Another 48 hours was crap. Movie from relatively early in his career. Not early early like Trading Places or the original 48 hours, but right after Beverly Hills cop 2 and Coming to America. Harlem Nights was crap, which was at the same time as Another 48 Hours. Vampire in Brooklyn Beverly Hills Cop 3 were pure crap. Mid point of his movie career. Dr Doolittle was a good children's movie. Bowfinger and Showtime were excellent in rekindling that Eddie Murphy goofiness we were accustomed too. He has had hits and misses throughout his movie career all around is what Im saying. But movies and movie acting really dont showcase his funny-ness. He hasnt done stand-up or live TV funny sketches since the 1980s, so we cant really know if he has stayed relevant with his jokes. But if Shrek and that franchise let him loose on some of the dialogue like some other voice over cartoon comedians were allowed to such as Robin Williams with Aladdin, then to me, he is still that hilarious guy I saw on Beta and on VHS. (Delirious and Raw) I think some of that Donkey dialogue was Eddie's. And no, he wasnt swearing, like we are used to with Eddie Murphy, the things that Eddie said as Donkey were funny. As were the dialogue in his other funnier movies like Showtime. The movie was crap, the character that Eddie played was pure Eddie Murphy...the Eddie Murphy that we know and love.

Beginning of November, while changing the all seasons to winters on my car, a fine 1997 Bonnie was at the garage. I know the mechanic so I was shooting the shyte with him until the end of the night and this pic was taken at closing time. Suspension work was needed on it and was stored in the garage over night for the job to be concluded the next day.

Wife driving her Fusion, I was a passenger enjoying the drive shopping around for different things. Saw this lovely Firebird Formula V8. Made her stop so I could take a pic.

The wife and I, along with our kids, are planning to visit Italy in the next 2 or 3 years. My daughter's high school trip to Italy and Switzerland last year was canceled. (Covid) We really wanted her to go. And she also. We will make that experience happen for her with a family trip seeing that my wife and I never visited Italy either. We will just see how things work out with my son's high school trip which is supposed to be next year. Again...global situations with Covid might put a damper on school trips, but nothing says that family trips cant happen!

I also like the fact that on the new livery, the Italian colours are also on the engines. But you do make a valid point that on the vertical stabilizer on the old design, the Italian colours are better presented than on the new livery.

Office building you work in the background? Cool. Might want to ease off on the honey there buddy, you've put on quite a bit a weight there since the last time you posted a pic of yourself.

I know its your GP. That is why I posted a couple of pics. To thank you for the article!

I kinda like it. Its simple, yes. But I like that shade of blue. Its reminiscing of the Italian football club's colours. The Azzurri I think is the term? Come to think of it, because it mimics the Azzurri's colours, I have gone from liking it to loving it. That is what they say.... Italians do it better! I agree!