trinacriabob

ruf ruf bow wow

Isn't that a quandary? The people that shouldn't be having them are....and the people that should be having them aren't. My HUMBLE opinion.

Maybe they should make a helluva lot less babies. Birth control to the rescue (and I'm Catholic). As the old saying goes: "If you can't afford 'em, don't have 'em." That's what I always think when I'm in Europe and you see gypsies panhandling.

Big Sur

Travel...travel...and more travel. That's always preceded auto events anyway.

Big Dig

Stage fright

That sounds so cool. If I could only stand the 12 hours SFO-AKL or 14 hours SFO-SYD. I am going stay local in 2006 and go to FL in May and Quebec in October (had to lock in the FF tickets) but March 2007 is a Southern Hemisphere trip. I keep telling myself to do something different and go to New Zealand/Australia, but "same parallel South America" will have about the same weather and Argentina seems to be calling again. That trip of yours sounded like a blast...memories for a lifetime!

electrolysis

Was that still of the vintage that had the effed up Chevy small block 305/350 cams? Exercise caution. You still have the 'rado? Does this mean you will be doubling up? That can be costly. I have found that, havind done it twice (Cutlass/Camaro and Cutlass/Regal), it can be an expensive proposition.

LaBrea Tar Pits

Tarts.

Please don't say that Z. It's bad enough that I have to talk to India now to rent a car or buy an airline ticket. It's not easy...they are very robotic sometimes. I can't imagine doing that for governmental bureaucratic matters. Scary $h!.

Panama Canal

I think we'll hang in there. It won't be the same, that's for sure. I think we've had a "fat, dumb and happy" posture here for too long and some people / organizations have trouble dealing with that (automakers, airlines, unions, local government, etc.). It is quite apparent that emerging superpowers are all in the Orient.

Really? One night? That good?

Maybe I'm missing it. To me, it's just a story...albeit, a dour one. I actually like "Subcity," "Telling Stories" and "Talking About a Revolution" better.

Went into the office last night for 3 hours. Snatched someone's Tracy Chapman CD. Listened to her husky voice for a couple of hours and thought how her biceps would look better on me. Weird? I guess.

Belgian

war

Yep. That's what they look like. They are, per the book descriptions, quite aloof and wary of strangers. It's a good-looking dog, though. My dog, when she was alive, used to have a weird way of trying to "talk" to me.

There are still some quality control glitches but, for the most part, you are right. I can't believe how many mid 80s RWD Cutlasses, Regals, GPs are still on the road in addition to even more mid 80s FWD 98s, PAs and DeVilles...all of which look to be in good shape and running well (no smoke, no weird engine noises, etc. etc.). I can be a pain in the ass, but I constantly run to C/R to see how our cars (GM) are faring in the "red dot" department. I want to see a lot of red dots, though not necessarily the type to be found on an Indian's forehead.

I don't know about jumped. Pushed or accidentally fell over -- probably more realistic. I think alcohol was involved. I also don't know what the state of her marriage to Robert Wagner was like. I am sure Wagner was under scrutiny for a while. So many movie stars' lives are so tragic and unhappy and that's something I can't figure out. I guess it's better to be an incognito working stiff living in suburbia, though I wouldn't mind a sliver of their moolah. Incidentally, Ocn, the thread started with Marilyn Monroe and has not derailed off of "women under the spotlight" save a nude pic which was evidently eliminated. I think that the detailed dialogue has been interesting and that pictures can or can't be offensive -- it depends on how "in your face" the sexual tone is. In other countries, female breasts are almost always bared (and have been for years) in a lot of commercials and ads. A topless woman on a beach is neither cited nor arrested. People overseas are so much more comfortable with this kind of stuff that it makes Americans look prudish and pissy about sexuality and nudity.

The first batch is cool The second batch doesn't work for me at all To each their own The best time of my life had to be in ATL in between undergrad and grad, so in my mid 20s then. Had a good job (which I stupidly gave up to go to arch. school), bought a small all-brick (a treat for a Californian) house in a nice area called Dunwoody for a joke of a price with a down payment that my parents had set aside for this purpose, the weather was nice, the living was easy, I knew a lot of fun and intelligent people and, if I ever needed to dip my feet in salt water, I could always make a run down to the Florida Panhandle for the weekend. Moving back out West has diminished how much disposable income I relatively had. Interesting idea for a thread.

Does anyone know much about Belgian Shepherds? I've seen them in the "family tree" right by German Shepherds but I've never seen one nor know anyone who owns one?