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I found a link to this on another site and just had to post it...please enjoy the humor in this site and don't turn this thread into a political bash fest. This website is not a joke either, sadly. Wikipedia on Conservapedia Conservapedia on dinosaurs Conservapedia on gravity Conservapedia on the automobile Conservapedia on Mexico Conservapedia on Russia Conservapedia on Ecuador Conservapedia on the French Revolution I got some of these off the thread at Skyscraperpage...apparently Conservapedia has cleaned up spelling and factual errors since this was first posted in early March, but it's still funny nonetheless.

One of my friends over AOL was telling me there was this new Starburst commercial out for Berries & Cream that was hilarious. They told me to watch it on YouTube. So I watched it, and....it was probably the stupidest commercial I have seen in the last few months (and I've saw some pretty wacked out ones in Greece). I laugh fairly easily at funny things, but I just sat there thinking "am I missing something?" Then I look at the comments below on YouTube and everyone is in an uproar at how amazing this commercial is and how they just can't stop laughing..."funniest commercial ever!!" Have I been over in Europe long enough that I have completely lost my sense of humor, or is this commercial just not really that funny?

The video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf3Rw8VW3aE...2D2%2C00%2Ehtml And the aftermath: Top Gear Offends Malaysians Alison Godfrey 5 April 2007 www.news.com.au Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson has offended Malaysians with his latest stunt on the cult automotive show. In the latest episode of the show in the UK, Clarkson labelled one of the country's cars the "worst in the world" and "unimaginative junk, with no soul, no flair and no passion". He then attacked the Perodua Kelisa with a sledgehammer and hung it from a crane with a one-tonne weight attached before blowing it up. It's not the first time that Clarkson has voiced his frustrations with Perodua. In an article in the Top Gear magazine, he said the three-cylinder car's name sounded like a disease and suggested it was "built in the jungles by people who wear leaves for shoes". But Malaysian Minister Datuk Abdul Raman Suliman defended Perodua, saying the company had exported thousands of cars to Britain and never had any complaints. He said the export model of the car had to adhere to certain standards set by the importing country and these had been met by Perodua Perodua is Malaysia's second national carmaker. It began producing compact cars in 1995.

My first time ever hearing about the GMC Syclone / Typhoon was when I downloaded them as user-made cars for the PC game Midtown Madness 1 (I was probably 14 at the time...this was before I knew much about cars and trucks). I was playing online against someone in an '84 Monte Carlo and beat them in a race. But sadly, I don't think I've ever seen one in person.

Interior looks nice, rest looks like it was hit by the ugly truck.

http://www.gothamist.com/2007/04/04/a_climate_chang.php

Congrats Sixty8, it looks great! That Buick will stand out nicely among the sea of generic sedans on the road today.

The interior looks bad (why are Chrysler's debut interior photos always drab gray??), but the exterior looks good and IMO is better than the current Liberty.

Now that I can see the full-size pics, all I can say is....FINALLY! The interior is beautiful, the exterior is entirely unique (and BOLD like it should be). The detailing is spot-on. I spent 5 minutes just looking at that picture of the gauge cluster. This will do very well for Ford.

BON's page is being a bitch and not letting me download the photos, but here's one that was on the main page. Link to the article and photos: http://www.blueovalnews.com/index.php?cate...2_articleid=523

GM needs these cars, but I don't like any of them...the styling is not up my alley at all. It's too bad small cars can't look tough and/or sexy without looking like Japanese anime characters. But whatever, as long as GM sell them, that's all that matters.

2009 FORD FLEX: AN ALL-NEW FULL-SIZE CROSSOVER REDEFINES THE JOURNEY FOR THE AMERICAN FAMILY (More pics further down) * Bold Design Inside and Out: New Ford Flex full-size crossover is the first vehicle of its kind with a bold design, striking interior and seven-passenger seating for families. * Cool Features: Interior refrigerator, second-row footrests, Ford Sync™ in-car communications and entertainment system, capless fueling, a 2,300-song personal juke box, programmable ambient interior “mood lighting” and a Multi-Panel Vista Roof™ are among the many customer-inspired innovations. * Safe and Secure: An available rear back-up camera, s tandard f ront-and-side-seat mounted air bags, three-row Safety Canopy ® side curtain and AdvanceTrac ® with RSC ® (Roll Stability Control) offer the safety and security customers demand for their families. * Powerful and Confident: An award-winning 3.5-liter V-6 engine, fuel-efficient 6-speed transmission and available intelligent all-wheel-drive provide powerful and confident road manners. * On Sale Next Year: The 2009 Ford Flex goes on sale in the summer of 2008, joining the Edge and Taurus X in Ford’s popular crossover lineup. MORE INFO

Yep, it's all too real to me...for a while the Euro was at 1.39 vs. the dollar. So when I buy a 1/2 litre of Coke that costs 2 Euro, I'm actually spending about $2.70. Yikes!

Ford's new products are on a roll!

The priests in my parish were always nice...I don't know if it was the rural setting or what, but they were all good guys that were easy to talk to. My last year of serving for Sunday morning mass was when I was a freshman, and the priest at that time would always talk golf with me before it was time to go.But I'm not very religious anymore and haven't been for a number of years...pretty much ever since college. I'm starting to see religion more as merely an organization to gain power over those that are weaker. Architecture history teaches you a lot of interesting tidbits of fact you didn't know before...there were a lot of atrocities committed during the Middle Ages in the name of religion, and it continues today with the bigotry that runs rampant in organizations such as Westboro Baptist Church. I believe that everything I have acheived is because of myself and my will to do so...studying science, physics, and biology in general makes the stories of the Bible seem merely fiction; I have a problem with those that take the Bible literally, because the Bible is a collection of stories that were likely originally written by those with a desire to force their political agenda upon others. Stories of redemption in the afterlife as long as you have absolute faith in the Church...it was a great way to acheive control over the poor masses who had nothing else to live for. There's a reason that religion in Europe and the United States has been declining over the few decades...it's just not as relevant today in the 21st century. I'm a very moral person...I enjoy helping others and am kind and considerate. It's part of the reason I liked my Catholic parish back at home...we held all kinds of fundraisers and other charity events. Religious Ed at my parish wasn't about beating the Bible into our heads...it was about understanding the world around us and making a better place of it, whether that meant helping at the local nursing home or collecting canned goods for the food pantry. But when I hear someone say that a Muslim or a Jew or an atheist is going to Hell because they are not Christians, I have a problem with that. It's a mindset from a time when we didn't understand the world as well as we do today...so we used religion as a way to comfort ourselves from that which we couldn't explain or didn't want to understand. Religion is something that divides rather than unites. It pits people against one another and breeds intolerance. In our globalized society today, it's simply not as relevant.

Weekend Drive Yaris is cute, but Toyota's skimping isn't Dan Neil / Los Angeles Times Toyota Motor Corp. is the colossus of roads. It is, or soon will be, the largest car company in the world. Its worldwide sales are up year after year, as are its profits, as are its stock prices. In the U.S., the world's largest car market, Toyota's sales rose 12.5 percent in 2006, grabbing even more market share from the oxygen-starved domestics. To meet the demand, the company is putting down factories and expanding facilities in this country like it was playing automotive Monopoly. The company builds Lexus, the best-selling luxury brand in the U.S. It builds the Prius, the hybrid shuttlecraft with more green cachet than macrobiotic tofu. It created Scion, which in three years went from a Scrabble word to the last word in Gen-Y branding. So is this the company that can do no wrong? Not really. I give you the Toyota Yaris, a surprisingly routine and summarily undelightful B-class subcompact that feels as mailed-in as if it had a stamp on it. Cute? Sure, in an entomological way, i.e., it kind of looks like a bug you would pin to a corkboard. Cheap? Oh yes, to a fault. The $11,530 MSRP (with delivery) can't make room for things like a radio/CD/MP3, anti-lock brakes, rear-window wiper or rear fogger, or split-folding rear seat. Our test car had another $3,210 of options: alloy wheels, power windows and doors, four-speaker audio with CD/MP3 player, ABS, front side-air bags, side curtain air bags. But up against other recent B-class urban runabouts -- the Honda Fit, the Nissan Versa -- the Yaris is less car for more money. And tinny. Compared with the sealed and muffled character of the Honda Fit, this thing's got more ring-a-ding than Frank Sinatra at Caesars Palace. More http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/artic...UTO03/703310363

I loved the last-gen's rear more than this refresh...it used to have more of a chiseled look. Maybe it's just the details, but it looks softer now.

Walked right next to a brand new Bentley Continental GT yesterday...that thing was gorgeous.

Lol! Maybe one of these days I'll see 'ol Benedict waiting at Elelttrauto to get his oil changed on the Popemobile.

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I went to Palm Sunday mass today at St. Peter's and saw the Pope! One of our instructors knows someone here in Rome who was able to get us tickets so we could have seats in the piazza rather than standing, so I was in the middle near the obelisk. I was surrounded by mostly Italian speakers, but there were people from Poland, Germany, Mexico, Spain, Brazil, and a ton of other countries there (flying flags). The mass was long...about 3 hours...and the sun was beating down on my neck, but it was definitely an experience. I'm not that religious of a Catholic, but being there and hearing singing echo throughout the whole piazza and hearing tens of thousands clapping at the very end gave me goosebumps. I'll update tomorrow or Tuesday with some pictures that I took.

Check it out, it's most definitely set in the present day. See the ad for Burger Shot with the Heart Stopper burger? That's definitely poking at Burger King's stackers. Also, ME TV = MTV? I see a Crown Vic and a Chrysler 300!

September?? It's done, yet they have to assemble a team before they will release it? Just put the damn thing already, Axl. This reminds me of all the criticism Boston received after it took them eight years to record Third Stage (everything had to be "perfect")...and even though it was a good album, IMO...something like that shouldn't take eight years...

I just happened to check a Grand Theft Auto site today, first time in about four months, and there is a new trailer posted of the next GTA, simply titled "IV". Check it out!! It looks like it is set in Liberty City (which now has many realistic-looking New York landmarks like the Empire State Building, MetLife [GetALife] Building, Flatiron Building, and Chrysler Building), but I've heard rumors the next GTA would also take place in Europe...maybe they're hinting at Eastern Europe?

We seriously need a Nelson smiley on this board.