Robert Hall

Can't eat anything with eggplant. I get dry heaves at the sight of it. Don't care for peaches or peach flavoring in anything. Black beans or 'brown beans' (the muddy mess often served w/ rice in Mexican dishes). Can't stand the taste or the horrific reaction my stomach has to them. Though I like white beans and green beans. Don't care for black olives or olives in any context other than martinis. What I do like--a little bit of everything..most everything else. (though I won't try blood pudding or haggis, though I like Paul Haggis-penned movies usually).

Seems like the Middle Atlantic states just keep getting hammered. Bad in E. Ohio also, talked w/ my Mom yesterday..their power was off 15 hrs over the past weekend, about 30 inches of snow. Neighbor plowed out the driveway for her More snow expected.

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The Final Cut (Pink Floyd's 1983 album had a song about Thatcher w/ the repeated line 'Maggie, what have you done?'.

+1.

Sounds like your girlfriend needs to learn to drive a manual or get her own car w/ an automatic. I'd never let another person interfere w/ my car choices.

Interesting...so this is a full electric model, not gas/electric hybrid?

+1. Likewise for Arizona. I like snow, as long as I don't have to go out in it and someone else plows and shovels.

A chance of showers here. Heat wave coming next week w/ highs in the 70s. Same old, same old. Boring. forecast

Ya, for chains, Cracker Barrel and Original Pancake House are my favorites.

The UK even has it's equivalent of Dennys--Garfunkels. At least when I ate at them a couple times at LHR they reminded me of Dennys.

Yeah, somehow I end up in there every couple of years..going back to 1997. Had a 2 day job interview that included going there after going out drinking downtown. Should have joined that company in hindsight.. Yeah, but at 3am in darkest rural Ohio sometimes Waffle House is all there is..still have memories of zipping up I-71 in a rental Dodge Intrepid in '99 and stopping at WH for food and coffee in the wee hours of the morning. I put Dennys there w/ IHOP, Big Boy, Village Inn, Elbys (not sure if that chain still exists). Decent road trip food or late night eats. Dennys was a staple of my college and grad school years for late night eats after a night of hitting the pubs or blues clubs in Kent and Ann Arbor...

Several times in the last 10 years I've flown out to San Jose for the weekend, usually to go to a concert at the HP Pavilion or visit friends. Inevitably, we'd find ourselves at midnight on a Friday or Saturday night at the Dennys on 1st street in San Jose, just down the road from eBay's offices. Another time after going to a concert at the Arco Arena in Sacramento we were driving around looking for a Dennys, couldn't find one...ended up eating room service food at the hotel. In 2008, after going to a concert at the US Bank Arena in Cincinatti, we went to Dennys (almost went to Waffle House instead). For some reason, I often end up at Dennys on Fri-Sat nights after going to a concert...

And the Sail...(which could fit between the Spark and Aveo here).

There are a couple of them close to me (within a mile or two), but haven't been in one in a while. Usually always see strange scary people in them. When I go out for breakfast, I like going to local places (or Einstein's Bagels if I'm in a hurry).

I generally always tip, sometimes there is a gray area where I'm not sure whether to tip or not are in restaurants where you pay first at the counter, then they bring the food to your table...kind of those in the 'quick casual' category. Awkward, since I rarely carry cash yet they don't often have a tip line on the receipt when you pay (and if the amount is low enough, you don't even sign).

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My sister once dated a guy from Constantinople that drove an Opel. (well, he was from Istanbul).

Anton Chigurh is such a bad azz. And Javier Bardeem is a great actor. (not to mention he has Penelope Cruz for a girlfriend..drool.)

That's just the way it is. Ken looks like such as Bad Azz Mofo.. 1975 style.

Some will win, some will lose Some were born to sing the blues Oh, the movie never ends It goes on and on and on and on

It is what it is..

Same here, I've found all of these except for the last 2...found the Corvette concept in silver and yellow variations, and the Firebird in green (love that color) and red. The CTS-v only in dark metallic gray. As far as repaints, found the Matchbox ZR1 in gray yesterday at Target.

Yah, the last ones were the best looking...the headlights were just so ugly on the '00-05 models. The Lumina based '95-99 weren't bad, but they looked like a 2dr Lumina, not really distinctive from the sedan.

A couple other wierd ones...a couple times I've been at a gas station, filling up, and a guy walks over to me and asks if I want to buy his 'high end' speakers out of the back of his Suburban or van...some story about 'they were going to a home installation w/ them, but the owner declined them, can get them for 75% off, whatever'...yeah, right..probably stolen goods. Or in December the guy that comes to the door and says he has premium (Omaha Steaks or something similar) steaks in the car that he is selling, frozen, discounted, blah blah blah. Wierd stuff.