trinacriabob

1.Yes, real, but push up bra, nonetheless 2. Her boyfriend...a relative of yours...in a field? Is this Pennsylvania....or Appalachia?

PB, buddy, you knew I'd be all over that. Love those Subarus. Seriously, though, this thread drives home how much I love GM. My list is fairly short: Have driven as rentals, so: 1. Chrysler Sebring hardtop coupe 2. Jeep Grand Cherokee with a 6-cylinder (too bad 4.0 L6 is gone) Would have to drive it to see if I liked it, but I do like the wedgy styling: 3. Ford Fusion

I was expecting something dour that would cast a bad shadow over your life. My favorite one: "You will be comfortable in your later years." I stuck it behind a magnet on the refrigerator. I hope this is the case -- I'm pretty conservative with the dollar.

Good point...I mean POINTS. Yeah, they're quite high and protude straight out. That's a push up. She's more cute than beautiful....there's a difference. Cute is Meg Ryan and beautiful is Catherine Deneuve. You look at beautiful over and over. She looks kind of Italian...don't say it, because you appropriately deleted the last name. Also, Vipes, c'mon, don't use the word "breeders." Without "breeders," we wouldn't have BV, now would we? :AH-HA_wink:

I agree. Not a bad interior. Hopefully the mousefur cloth in the base model will go away and the replacement will have a higher quality appearance and feel. Yep, it's the exterior, namely the front end, that irk me. That oval up front, when viewed straight on, just doesn't do it for me. In fact, I outright don't like it. The LaCrosse needs a slightly more youthful front end and that's a quick fix they could have thrown some money at. Don't these people hold focus groups? Do they design in a vacuum?

P - what's your source for this? I think Ponchoman was right on this one. They dont' start switching engines/trannies until there is a good face lift or platform change. In fact, remember that walking encyclopedia that periodically posts on the site and then goes away - he said the engine would remain through 2008.

bitch (Dog + yo mama) Gerardo, de quien es ese perro?

It's ok though I am not a truck buyer. From a stylistic perspective, it's no surprise there would be a hint of Ram/Dakota in the fender bulges. Give it a rest. I only wish that the frontal division between paint and chrome had more of a provocative V-shape or angled line to sass it up a bit.

Any kind of big "project" (government spending, corporate spending, religious charity campaign, etc.) ALWAYS experiences the misallocation of funds. Let's face it -- there are corrupt and/or stupid people who don't have good priorities out there.

spire

ethanol

Jeep

Fantasy Island

With $ 3 + a gallon gas, who isn't concerned about gas mileage. My current car, at 14 years and 225,000 miles, still gets what was posted on the window sticker...about 18 in town and 28 on a road trip. It still gets that 28....amazing. Cautiously, I'm looking at new cars. I've been out of town the last 3 weekends, so I've had the opportunity to rent. I had a GP as a rental in Florida. On a road trip across the lower part of the state, the 3800 returned 27.7 mpg (with the AC on the whole time and some non-freeway driving). This past weekend, I was in L.A. I wanted a Monte 3.5 to see the mpg, but they gave me an Impala 3.5. UNBELIEVABLE. From LA to Santa Barbara and back, mostly freeway, some bottlenecks and the AC on part of the time), I got 233.6 miles divided by 7.437 gallons = 31.41 mpg. C'mon folks, for a car like that and not even driven cautiously, that is fantastic. Driven at 65 with no air would have probably returned 33 or so. What kind of MPG do you get? Happy or sad about that?

PB, are your neighbors white trash? They sound like it. What's with the cat not wanting to let go as she is about to give birth? They mark people and things. Sounds like she's marked YOU. I'm not much of a cat person, but I hate to see them get the shaft. It is a domesticated living creature. On the other hand, it is EXTREMELY painful to see a dog suffer, in contrast.

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Monica Lewinsky

mouthwash

Man, Sci, I read between the lines on some your posts and you tend toward the KINKY! Like a lot of people here.

Seattle native (God, is she weird)

Orange County, Florida, right? Ha ha. Gotcha back. Hey, Flybry, I was in your fine state 2 weeks ago for vacation. If you were in the FLL/PBI area, I would have looked you up, but you are on the other side of the state. C'mon, you love Cali, admit it!

I can't stand them and I'm fairly good at it because I work hard and think the clients are entitled to get good work for their money. It's out of respect to the client, mostly. I graduated with a 3.9 and passed the registration exam easily. I just shut it off and only like to hang around the ones who don't eat, breathe and sleep architecture. In fact, I have few friends who are architects....they all do other things. I want to talk about travel, cars, dirty jokes, ethnic jokes, the economy, sex, music and movies in my spare time. Can't do that with most uptight architects. I did have lunch with a Jewish architect friend who came down from the Bay Area along with some of his Cal Poly SLO buddies. They were hilarious. We went to "The Pantry"...a dive, but a downtown LA institution that doesn't even take credit cards. Incidentally, don't you generally find the pissy, elitist and higbrow architects to be "less than" masculine? They're kind of pussified, IMHO. Those are the ones that annoy me, whether it was in school or in the workplace. I really love reminding them that they are quite a few notches below a doctor or a lawyer....both in how they are viewed and especially in the thickness of their wallets.

OC, OC, OC...you're preaching to the choir. I am Santa Monica-born and West L.A.-raised and with the exception of 4 years divided between Italy and the NY suburbs, I did all of my schooling through college(all of it Catholic) on the west side of L.A. It just feels SOOOOO different now, that's all. I remember it as a "kinder, gentler" LA and a more affordable one, too. This afternoon, I pulled an open house flyer for a townhome on the Woodland Hills/Canoga Park border with 1150 sq. ft. and they were asking $ 459,000. I'm sorry, that's $ 400 a square foot for a crappy late 80s townhome. Get bigger and get closer in and it becomes a veritable nightmare. I don't mind it at all...it's just that I'm on edge in a few places. When I was growing up, I pretty much stayed on the West Side, the South Bay and the West Valley...that's it. Sometimes, because of friends, I might venture to Pasadena/Arcadia or to Whittier. Today, Sunday, I went and spent the day in Santa Barbara...truly a superlative. The weather can be described in one word: GLORIOUS.

chatty

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