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Welcome to the Choppin' Competition #46 Voting thread! Remember, artists who entered must vote for someone other than themselves. Those that do not vote or vote for themselves will be assessed a two (2) point penalty. Voters, please nominate two (2) entries in this format: *1st place *2nd place Each first place vote earns 2 points and each second place vote earns 1 point. Voting begins now and will end Friday, March 28th, 2008 @ 11:59PM. Only those votes cast during that time will be counted. 1 2 3 VOTE----------------VOTE----VOTEVOTE-----VOTEVOTEVOTE---VOTEVOTEVOTE---- -VOTE--------------VOTE---VOTE----VOTE---------VOTE---------VOTEVOTEVOTE---- --VOTE------------VOTE----VOTE----VOTE---------VOTE---------VOTE---------------- ---VOTE----------VOTE-----VOTE----VOTE---------VOTE---------VOTE---------------- ----VOTE--------VOTE------VOTE----VOTE---------VOTE---------VOTEVOTEVOTE---- -----VOTE------VOTE-------VOTE----VOTE---------VOTE---------VOTEVOTEVOTE---- ------VOTE----VOTE--------VOTE----VOTE---------VOTE---------VOTE---------------- -------VOTE--VOTE---------VOTE----VOTE---------VOTE---------VOTE---------------- ---------VOTEVOTE---------VOTE----VOTE---------VOTE---------VOTEVOTEVOTE---- ------------VOTE--------------VOTE VOTE-----------VOTE--------VOTEVOTEVOTE---- Good luck to all entrants!

CLIFF NOTES: Chrysler's respectful and giving everybody a 2 week vacation. PCS worked in extremely hot conditions.. and stripped on the job. PCS is Italian, brain damaged, and claims to not be Sasquatch. Can we end this thread now?

What'd you say, Bob? Anything further than about an inch past my face is pretty blurry.

Maybe a plant or two for retooling? I have no idea, I haven't heard anything...

Tonight's the deadline.. and only three contestants?! Come on, all!

I think it's retarded that the Pope can name sins.

Wow, great work!

911. Wrong thread? I wish I were closer, but I'm definitely not flying to a car show. haha

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I just noticed something weird about the Camaro. Most cars, and even the concept, have their calipers behind the front rotor and ahead of the rear rotor. The production car looks to have its calipers behind both rotors. Here are some pics to compare: Production: http://images.leftlanenews.com/content/mar...08/camaro-9.jpg Concept: http://img2.netcarshow.com/Chevrolet-Camar...allpaper_09.jpg Is it weird that it's setup like that? The G8's is the same way, but the CTS's and Corvette's are setup like the Camaro concept.

Don't shave!

Damnnnnnn I need to do this!

Nah, they're blue. I flow like the ocean, that's all.

Let's see.. I got premium today in Madison Heights, MI for about $3.39/gallon. I was on I80 in Indiana earlier and saw it at $3.59 for 87, but are stations on toll-roads more expensive?

Must look away before pants become soaked. And are you seriously complaining about it having two mufflers?! That's one big complaint about the 4th Gen.. it only had one!

No.. you'd better have something to submit soon...

Wow, there's so much to say about how pathetic that was. Anybody have a bullet?

Everybody's saying the turbo Cobalt SS is 13 seconds faster around Nurburgring than any other sport compact car. That's blowing the doors off them.

There hasn't been a good reason to move it.. If it's not broke, don't fix it.

<----DodgeFan, don't pull a Josh!

Oh boy, well let's just let this sum up my night and feelings the last year or so on the subject. I wrote this last night: I’m not perfect… …but damn it I already know that. Heck, I’m even listening to country right now and I bet that right there is something that would make me imperfect to you, but that’s alright because I’ve learned something tonight. They say you learn something new everyday, and they also say everything is meant to be. Well, today’s lesson was meant to be, and even though it’s taken a long time to learn it, it’s in my head now. Hopefully writing this will let me look back again one day when I’m again feeling sorrow on this subject and it will remind me of the lesson that I’m writing about now. Let’s go back to just over two years ago. I don’t remember why, but you and I started talking. During that whole time I know all I could think about is how beautiful you were. Then I got to know you better and started to really like you. I acted on the situation that Valentine’s Day by giving you the most thoughtful thing I’ve ever given a single person. You said you liked it, but time went by and we grew further apart and remained friends. We would talk every once in awhile, nothing really too special, but I already had it in me that I liked you even if I didn’t know how to “get to you.” Time kept passing and about six months ago we started dating again. I tried to do different things other than the regular “dinner and a movie” because I like spontaneity and I had to try something to stand out a bit. In the end, it was just another time that you and I didn’t work out, ending in a “let’s just be friends” sort of deal. But you know what? That was absolutely fine because being your friend is infinitely better than being nothing to you at all. If you wanted to be single that was fine with me because all I honestly ever wanted was for you to be happy, regardless of whether or not it made me happy. So we kept talking and it’s come to the third time, and damn it it’s a charm. A couple weeks back you told me that you were starting to feel old feelings for me again and you’d like to date. I was so happy I couldn’t talk. I tried calling my best friend, Joe, after I heard that and I honestly couldn’t get half a word out without losing the word to the rapid rate my heart was beating. Well guess what, nothing happened again. I won’t even ask why because it’ll be the old “no chemistry, let’s just be friends” deal. Call me a hypocrite, but I hate that excuse. Today I got myself all excited only to be let down. You’re too busy for me, you don’t feel the same, and I completely understand. I really do. But if you get a chance to read this, I think I’ll tell you a few random things about myself that you might not have known before. It won’t help matters at all and I know that, but I figured you should know more about me since I want to know everything there is to know about you. Now I’m quite possibly one of the most modest people you’ll ever meet and very conservative in how I talk about myself. I cannot stand conceit and I know I am absolutely not perfect in any one way, but this is who I am and what I am proud of: I hold a black belt in the martial arts and took classes for nine years of my life and would never take a moment of that back. While working for my instructor back then, I got my first job. I now make more than four times the amount I made back then in an hour. I am honest and will never purposely lie unless it’s joking around or to protect you. I don’t always tell the full truth, but I always try to avoid telling a lie. I put other people first; you can see that in my academics. I will help another person or group before I help myself because I feel my intent here on earth is to cater to others and make the earth a somewhat better place in my time. While at school, I try to donate at least a couple hours of my time every week to help out kids whose parents have been incarcerated. I also donate time to “Adopt-a-School” and help kids at the local elementary school once in awhile. On that subject, I’m currently raising money and helping as much as I can with my school’s annual Relay for Life event and have raised more money than anybody else on my team. I have never lost a significant other, but I constantly think about what it would be like if I did and how different life would be. This helps me cherish every moment just a little bit more. I really like cars and can work on most things that go wrong. I blew the engine in my Camaro and fixed it with my dad. Just in the last couple months I removed the engine from my Cobalt twice in my own garage. It works and runs properly now. I take pride in most of the work I do. I feel that if I’m going to do something, I might as well do it as well as possible the first time so I won’t have to go back later. I’m usually not afraid to try something new and different. In the next month I plan on getting my eyebrow pierced. Hopefully this year I’ll be able to go skydiving for the first time. I listen to basically all mainstream music. Top 40, rock, classic rock, heavy metal, alternative, punk, ska, rap, country, techno; you name it and I probably listen to it. I always put my family first no matter the situation, but I have my own opinion on everything, which is usually the only place where I clash with them. My fraternity brothers are an extended family to me. I am the newly appointed Design Moderator on a reputable car forum online. I love to Photoshop and sketch cars, but I’m not very good at the latter. I am my fraternity’s Recording Secretary and hope to one day be vice-president, then president of it. I am also on the executive board of the Inter-Fraternity Council at Kettering. I will always admit my faults and I try to stay as unbiased as possible in all situations. Like I said, I’m proud of who I am, but I can certainly always be a little better. I’ve got faults, everybody does, so please excuse me for those. I honestly don’t know if I’ve ever liked a girl as much as I’ve liked you the last two years of my life, and I sure as hell know I haven’t ever liked a girl for that long. In the end though, I finally realize that it probably won’t work out. I feel that it takes a good amount of commitment from two parties to make a relationship work, but that’s not existent right now, and I’m finally realizing that it never really has been. I don’t know what it is about you, but I like it all. Every single part of you is flawless to me, except the part that means you and I will never be. Other than that, I can’t pick a single damn flaw, and that is really impressive coming from me because I am one of the pickiest people I know. So from today on, you and I are friends. Unless you can somehow prove that you can like me or can be committed to me half as much as I feel I like and commit myself to you, friends it shall be. I’m a loser in this winning game, but today I think I’ve learned the lesson that comes with every loss, and it’s not to try harder next time because I’m not sure I could. As much as I hate to admit it, I love you for who you are and we probably will never be. If that’s how it is, so be it. You’ll find that guy with the perfect key to unlock the beautiful locket that is your heart, and I’ll find the girl who will fill in the empty puzzle pieces that my heart is missing. It just looks like we’re looking for different things. My cardboard puzzle pieces will never be the hard, rigid, perfect fit that one man’s key will be. I wish you and him the best.

Well I'll look at it from two perspectives. If you need a donor, I'll be more than happy to be your baby daddy. Or if you simply need a boyfriend for your daughter, I'll be more than happy to take on that role too. All kidding aside, despite me only being 20, I've actually thought about this issue before. I don't think I could have a kid knowing that by the time they're just hitting life in college I'll be over the hill and on the decline. However, whatever you choose is obviously your choice and your business. I just wouldn't do it myself.. but maybe that's my age speaking. I don't think I'd want my dad to be 40 years older than me; I'd probably never meet my grandparents at an older age so I could remember them. I don't know...

Good work, Mario! Come on guys, we need more! The deadline was yesterday, but I'll extend it to a week from yesterday, March 13th. GET YOUR CHOPS IN AND DONE!

We need more submissions, y'all!