trinacriabob

Agreed. However, since I am in a transition mode (relocation and job/career), I want to snag one last W-body with a 3800 V6 so I can hopefully get through the next 5 years without as much as having to think about the car and what's under the hood.

With sheepskins from MIT, these accents have to be somewhat "exaggerated," right? I mean, no one who lives in Greenwich CT or Stamford CT has a "NYC accent or derivative thereof" - the mucky-mucks who live there...and come from there... speak "broadcast English."Since you're a native New Englander, their accents are a big put-on, right? Not only that, they sound more like a New York tri-state accent than a New England accent, and the latter is quite easy to pick off (Kay McCarthy of Star Markets, ouch).

Eu fale' com as minhas primas em Florenca (Italia) ontem para planificar o nosso viagem pela "Sardinia" (nao conheco a palavra em Portugues) no verao e faze' o mesmo na sua cidade --- 27 C! Que sorte!

cow chip

Camino, come on now! At a quarter of a million miles (soon approaching), my W-body is the best car I've ever owned. At each oil change, the oil comes out full...and gold. My tranny fluid remains a clear bubble-less pink. What more can one ask for?Ending production dates, to the best of my knowledge: Monte Carlo - May 2007 Grand Prix - December 2007 LaCrosse and Impala - the entire 2008 MY and possibly a little "hangover" after that, depending on the when the replacements (G8 and such) start rolling. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

Some people are despondent and take their own lives. Are they cowards? Maybe, but we don't walk in their shoes. Some people are maladjusted and take other people's lives and then their own? Are they cowards? Yes, of the worst kind. I think this happened at UT-Austin as well and that's why those college campaniles tend to be off limits now. But, unfortunately, no one is completely safe. Weird in the sense that I was super interested in going to their arch-rival, U-Va Charlottesville, for grad school in architecture. I didn't get in because they had 260 applicants for the 20 spots in the extended M.Arch. (for unrelated prior degrees). I stood a much better chance of getting into Va. Tech., based on the applicant ratio, but if I was going to go to the East Coast, it was going to be snooty U-Va or NOTHING. We can say it's a sign of the times but these cowardly acts have occurred every century, it seems. It's just that maladjusted people exist everywhere and we need to be on guard to the best that we can. My thoughts and prayers go out to the victims, their families, friends and those who will be traumatized by this senseless lunacy.

Meat carne, carne, carne, viande :AH-HA_wink:

surgeon

I was thinking the same thing! Donner Pass on I-80 had a chain requirement on Saturday (the 14th). I had to drive across it on Friday when the weather was temperate. The ski resorts up at "the Lake" are operating.

legal

I don't mind him. (Ann Coulter, what a pill). Oh yeah, and Fred Thompson up above. I looked him up. He's from Tennessee, law degree from Vanderbilt, relevant experience, but then this part is weird....also a "character actor" with a list of films on imdb, is married to a woman 25 years his junior on the second go around (more power to him, I guess), and has lymphoma in remission. Interesting.Like I said, absolutely nobody "linear" like in previous elections appears to have come forth.

Yeah, that's another one of those less-visible but fairly conventional names. Again, it seems like we need to do our own research because Hillary and Obama seem to be getting press because of their "novelty" relative to the demographics of who have seen run for President since it became an institution in this country.

You're avoiding the question. Besides, you've got that "cancello." LOL.

Mustang Ranch

Chi e piu' matto tra noi due?

Absolutely. That's where I'm at, as my initial post indicates.

Ditto. How does Chris Dodd look? Senator or what not from Connecticut since the early 1980s? I, too, like the other less-visible Dems more.Obama doesn't have the track record and experience. "Hilaire" is both hard to listen to and to look at.

Road trips are ADDICTING. What, Z, no Big Apple by car? Even I have driven the Cross Bronx Expwy (:scared:) (from JFK onto the Van Wyck and across the Whitestone) before crossing into Jersey. And, as an L.A. boy in my California plated Cutlass Supreme, I was NOT ready for what I saw on the Cross Bronx...the gutted cars and all...and I was saying my "hail Marys" that the car would not break down and that I didn't get into any fender-benders or what not.

Yo, BV, have you and "the ocn" (as in "the Donald") ever met, as you live so darn close to each other? Or, for that matter, have you met any of the other Pennsylvanians on here?

Yeah, and another factoid on George - he was born in a rural area of Mexico because his parents were under scrutiny from the US for the illegal practice of polygamy, or something to that effect, though he had a conventional married life, as does Mitt.I think Mitt's religion blew my mind as he was elected in Massachusetts which, in my mind, is as liberal as a state can get.

WOW! I happened to be working on something else and got around to some web-surfing because my "leadership ethics" chapters get boring every once in a while. Somehow, I got onto the Presidential electiong prognostications. In a nutshell, nobody that I consider to be fairly conventional is in a front runner position. This leaves me perplexed. On the Democratic side, Hillary is a obviously a woman and Obama is obviously of mixed race. Not only that, there are so many other contenders that no one knows how their pie will be split up. On the Republican side, Giuliani has had an interesting personal life in terms of number of marriages and Romney from Mass. is Mormon, which as a Westerner, I did not know. Let's leave it at that. I can't seem to find any candidate I particularly like who is real practical and middle of the road, and I don't align with either or any party. Without getting into it too much, are you satisfied with anybody that is on the slate for 2008?

New Amsterdam

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I only find myself listening to them when I am channel surfing on a long drive and can't find a decent jazz or rock station. I probably listen longer than I should because of their heavy accents and crustiness which I find somewhat funny. It gets a little frustrating in that they have to go through so many theatrics to dispense their advice. Haven't yet found content that was aggravating, since most of the calls were actually kind of dumb/naive that I would have never called in for myself. If they tilt toward foreign cars over domestics, I probably would not listen to them either.

Mine was the base model. The interior layout was practical and reasonably well assembled. I detected few, if any, fit and finish issues. The overall dashboard design was very generic in a "Main Street USA" kind of way and the materials used (the feel of the vinyl on the dash) were acceptable. It certainly wasn't the dash on something like a Grand Prix, or even a Monte Carlo, where it's unique to that car and not duplicated elsewhere. While the seats were very comfortable, I would have to say I did not care for the fabric as it was very "base model," but then, lately, a lot of the base model fabrics in a lot of cars aren't that nice to the touch.