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Are we not in enough pain? The election, the SCOTUS confirmation, domestic terrorism, coronavirus, stimulus gridlock? WTF is this that Scott Peterson's verdict and process might be revisited? Given that they put a man on the moon some 5 decades ago, nothing ought to surprise us. Still, unbelievable ... in a bad way.

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I'd take it, sell it, buy a new $29K Dodge Charger with the proceeds, and save the rest ... like a good tightwad.

Got the power steering fluid changed. It had been about 4 years and 50,000 miles since I last did it. Feels good to refresh the car like this every now and then.

Saw an immaculate white (pure as the driven snow, get it?) 2004 or 2005 Monte Carlo base ... the last one to have the sideways Coke bottle headlamps. So, it had the wheel covers and no spoiler, revealing the hump with the CMSL that you rarely see in most MCs. I remember these 3400 V6 cars being rated at 21 city and 34 highway. They sipped fuel. Toward the end of their respective model years, Chevy dealerships were "giving" these away, yet they weren't bad cars at all and time has proven that.

I think it is a scanner. It has to be. I use block printing on any envelope I write, so it wouldn't be an issue for the scanner. But for cursive that is sloppy, too ornate, or written with a different hand by people from other countries, I wonder how the scanner might pick it up. Some mail has get rejected and require hand sorting. But also how the mail moves. Payment centers seem to be in Charlotte, Philly, Chicago (Carol Stream comes to mind), Dallas, and Phoenix. So, if you're sending a letter with a payment from Seattle to Dallas to a PO box for a regular monthly bill and you put it in the mailbox at noon, shouldn't it be picked up by the addressee in 2 days? Wouldn't it be on the plane that night or the very next morning? A commercial aircraft or a freight company's aircraft? And, then, wouldn't the zip code and the bar code cause it to get priority handling to that certain PO box because it's a prominent credit institution with a lot of volume? Don't know. I've seen that it's about 3 days for most of my things to post as received, and sometimes 4.

A random thought that's being going through my head the last few days: Flies gravitate toward turds, do they not?

Saw "Green Book" twice and I could see it again. Epic! Given that he picked up the car in front of Carnegie Hall, I KNEW there would be some great cinematography of the car crossing the George Washington Bridge to head westward and out of NYC ... and there was!

This is cool. What's a little off is that most of the building is so vanilla, but the curved part makes a strong statement. Styles are hard to pin down sometimes. I don't know if this is art deco or a style they used for movie theaters in SoCal post WW2 which they called "streamline moderne" (learn something new every day). Loved this place, even though it is no longer recognizable as such and hasn't been a theater for a long time. The second caption was hilarious. Incredible looking interior on this vehicle. The only thing that's weird, and probably always will be to me, is how consoles are now about as wide as the control area between the pilot and the first officer on a jumbo jet.

I remember that the Kia Stinger was well received and, now, some reviews of it aren't as favorable as the initial impressions. It looks like it's built on a variation of the Optima platform, but I'm not sure of that. On a different tangent, a random thought that sometimes goes through my mind is that I'd like to take a tour of how the post office system works. They probably don't do that anymore, and certainly not now. When I was in the cub scouts, we got to tour airliners and we got to tour military ships. I would like to see how a first class letter is routed from beginning to end and how, nowadays, they'd deal with bad handwriting for addresses and such. It's part of always wondering how things work.

For a laugh, most definitely. I believe there's one coupe model (Polara, maybe) where the trunk lid is longer than the hood. When I was a teenager, I knew a lady from Oklahoma with cat glasses and a thick accent who drove one. She was a character and you'd almost have to be one to pick out one of these from the car lot.

This makes sense when I think about it. I don't know the materials that went into these cloth seats but it seems the base models with bench seats and no armrests had plaid seats or these ribbed fabric seats that felt like a backpack or almost like plastic, respectively. Then, if it was the better model, such as a Caprice over an Impala, and had an armrest, the cloth had a better feel and sometimes they managed to inset a metal (?) emblem into the seatbacks, the armrests, and/or rear speaker between the seats. I may be wrong but it seemed like it was about the mid-70s when there was an avalanche of much nicer cloth seating, almost a certainty in the up line models, and even though one might think it was fragile, it held up well for 100,000 to 200,000 miles of sitting on it. Which leads me to wonder why one reads furniture reviews about sofas from known manufacturers where the fabric cushions give out in 1 to 3 years. Again, less is more. I agree with you on this. Also, one could order the better model in a series to get some nicer features (more comfortable seats, alloy wheels, etc.) and keep it within reason by not putting every imaginable pimpy option on it.

You use the icon for confused and down vote more than most forum members here. That said, where's the icon for eye roll as a post rating when one needs it?

I am all about popping into (Italian) bakeries. Perhaps too much so.

I wanted to wish the Canadians on the forum a Happy Thanksgiving (celebrated the second Monday of October). And wish a Happy Columbus Day to anyone who celebrates it. I do. I'm thinking there won't be any parades in Little Italy neighborhoods anywhere this time around. But one can always pop into an Italian bakery.

Thank you! And also good for people to know how much $29,999 (or less) can buy them. Let's hope the next rendition is just as good ... or better.

I don't know if today is National Coffee Day but I'm going by a Dunkin Donuts and they are proclaiming it National Dunkin Day. Buy something, get free coffee. For $ 3, I bought 2 of those steak-egg-cheese roll ups for breakfast and got a free medium coffee. Score!

Great stuff. Almost 60% of these Biscaynes were 6s. Amazing. And without A/C, in FL. And had it had had vinyl instead of cloth seats, yikes. Well, these people motored along on the cheap knowing they could reach each spark plug and most other components with ease, not have electronic gizmos to go sideways, and have low repair bills. It's sort of like the tale of the tortoise and the hare. I couldn't see comfortable folks on Key Biscayne driving a Biscayne, though. You never know. I've heard some of the wealthiest people are tight and drive dowdy cars since they don't want attention.

I didn't think of that. Before 1970, the 6s would have produced sufficient horsepower to power that car ... hmm, 230 or 250? Also, since it's obviously in FL, I hope that it had A/C. I wonder if they ordered even the base models without A/C at the time of this car. - - - - - Spotted today. Couldn't believe it. Unusual color. In terms of photo quality, I'll take what I can get before it darted off.

Nice. Base model ... and a coupe. Thinking they still used the 283 V8 for this M.Y., or would it have been 307 and/or 327 ...

I saw the cover for this YouTube. I learned a few strange things in "one thing leads to another" fashion a few days ago. I randomly looked up Lakeview Terrace. It is a far flung and low density neighborhood within the city of Los Angeles and in which the San Gabriel Mts. jut up behind it. As a kid, I always liked the name and, with ~460 sq. mi worth. of city, I had never been there. It sounded "terraced." It's not high end at all, but some horse owners make it home, with the foothills behind it. It is close to Pacoima, a largely Hispanic area with its share of problems, and Sylmar, another suburb that became known as the epicenter of the 1971 L.A. earthquake, upon which the 1974 film "Earthquake" was based Lakeview Terrace is actually racially mixed. Everyone lives there. As I read the article, that's where the Rodney King beating took place. It took 28 years for me to learn that fact. I always though it occurred in South Central or other inner city area. Then, there's an actual movie named "Lakeview Terrace." I didn't know that. It's about some unusual dynamics among some Lakeview Terrace neighbors who are having a row. I plan to get the DVD and watch it. Random association on the Random Thoughts thread gone awry.

Do some Tesla owners have cognitive dissonance about their purchase? I don't know. It's not my sort of sled, and not because I have anything against EVs. It's just the whole Tesla mystique that I find annoying. This afternoon, I tanked up. Upon leaving the gas station, I saw a new mid-engine Corvette. I have been seeing more of them. This time, and for the first time, I saw one that was metallic silver with the dark red leather interior. It was stunning, and not just because I like that color combination in general.

Today, I saw a Tesla on the freeway. That's not that unusual. On it, it had the license plate: GAS HAHA It made for a HAHA moment.

Paisley* * easier to continue word association with this one

For 007 fans, the latest movie from the franchise should be in theaters before the holidays. (Masks are your friends.) Here's a stupid article rating the songs from 007 movies across the years. I don't know if it's someone's opinion or it was based on revenue. It seems to favor the older songs and the ones by Shirley Bassey. I thought "From Russia With Love" was overly sappy and "Live and Let Die" by Paul McCartney was just okay. The ranking of theme songs used in James Bond movies Thought some C&G folks who enjoy 007 movies might find this somewhat entertaining.