Satty

Right now it looks like we'll be sitting on the Prius through the end of the year, possibly until March, because the Cooper is blowing everything else away.

If we can find something agreeable.

I wonder what happens when one of the boys hits puberty. On second thought, I'd rather not know, this being Arkansas.

Did they find a way to lipo out 800 pounds?

I'll even take this a step further, in 2005 the British government released a study that showed about 6% of the population is gay. That works out to about 1/17, so statistically, one of their kids is going to be gay. Wouldn't that make for an interesting Thanksgiving?

Nah, the test was negative, which sucks in a way, 'cause that means I might get the flu.

Well, if each of the 17 kids has 17 kids of their own, thats 289, if each of those has 17 kids, thats 4913 kids, if each of those has 17, thats 83581, thats quite the contribution to society.

I agree with ocn, it gives me a Down Under vibe. I like it, I may have to take a Sport for a quick spin. I like the old taillights better.

I forgot a band, Garbage. I dont know how, Garbage had some good stuff.

I've driven both, there is a very good reason the Astra is cheaper. I may have found an alternative, there is no Volvo dealership closeby, but a road trip to take a hard look at a C30 might be in order.

I was thinking i.

Another thought, if GM does get a huge loan, and the U.S. government essentially becomes a huge stockholder in GM, would it be death for the Camaro, G8 and other niche cars in favor of smaller, lighter, more efficient cars?

My ho and I exchange texts like "I'm bored, wanna f@#k?" "Suck me, beautiful" and "You have a tiny wiener" throughout the day. Today was a little different, with things like "Are you sure its the flu?" "You're certain you're not pregnant?" "Take a test, just to be safe" and "Dont make me steal your pee".

Now we're not getting straight answers on when a special order would get here. Stupid Mini being popular, maybe we should get an Astra, sure, its not nearly as good a car, but they're plentiful on lots.

I got a wagon full of wood today for $0. All told we ended up with about half a rick, which should be enough to keep the fires going occasionally this winter. The guy I got it from built his house with concrete floors (because he's cheap) and a woodburning stove (because he works at and lives right next to a sawmill) and his house was nice and toasty this evening.

John McCain will tell you how well negative campaigns work.

We'll settle arguments the old fashioned way: duels.

More of the conversation of the day: (to set the scene, we're in the wagon on a winding country road, going to get firewood) Her: Hey look, cows! Me: Yeah Her: Isn't it too cold for cows? Me: What? Her: Dont they do something to keep the cows warm? Like birds going south or something? Me: What? Cows dont fly south for the winter. Her: No, like cattle drives or whatever. Me: I was literally speechless.

First of all, Trapper Keepers on eBay! Second of all, I've been listening to a lot of Third Eye Blind lately, and its making me nostalgic for the music of the 90's. 3eb, the Wallflowers, Everclear, Dookie-era Green Day, stuff like that.

When I was delivering, there was a woman who would instruct us to leave the pizzas on the bench on her porch, take the cash from under the doormat and keep the change. I always thought it was strange. Turns out she had a psychotic poodle that would freak out when the doorbell rang or when there were strangers around.

Buick stays because of China, as long as Buick is around GMC and either Pontiac or Saturn will be around to make current BPG dealers full line. Saab and Hummer need to find a way out.

There was a Grand Marquis on CL a week ago, it looked like it was in great shape. If I needed another fullsize RWD tank, I would have taken a serious look at it. In other news, I guess one good part about having the flu (not me, the other one) is that it allows a full day to be wasted on calling and email every MINI dealership in America (ok, thats an exaggeration, but she talked to a lot and also watched just about every episode of The Hills thanks to Tivo) and nobody had what she wanted on the lot or coming in anytime soon. Looks like we're stuck in some sort of wacky order and wait forever deal.

The Volt is going to be a money loser for a year or two, at least.

Renegotiating with the UAW is the only thing you've listed that can GM from going under. Even that may happen more quickly if they file Chapter 11. I'm just worried that GM is going to make the same mistakes they've been making the last decade and we'll be having this same conversation in six months when GM burns through government money.

Lets say GM gets $25,000,000,000 in taxpayer dollars as a bailout. What do they do with it thats any different than what they've been doing the last decade or so? It seems to me they're saying "Give us money or we die now" instead of presenting an "If you give us money, we'll do x,y and z in order to survive" argument.