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- Brüno. Eh. Has moments, but it’s mostly paint-by-numbers. Not to be missed if phallic humor is your thing, though.
- Time for clementines. They’re as close to candy as fruit comes. If you haven’t tried them, pick some up.
- Listen, you stupid driving-an-automatic-with-both-feet bitch: your shop loves you, because you’re going through brakes at three or four times the normal rate. But the larger problem with your habit is that the utility of your brake lights as a safety device is greatly diminished when they’re on all the damned time.
- I read that Barack Obama actually used the word “humility” in accepting his Nobel Peace Prize. Uh-huh. Our esteemed president missed a huge chance here. Gracious decline was the only good path. I had no real expectation of such, but I’d have been impressed with it, and would have said so.
- I’m surprised no one has called this the Obama star (right time of year, The One just happens to be in Norway, and so forth). “For unto us a president is elected, and he shall proclaim ‘Bush did it,’ and shall bow at the waist…”
- ABC has hacked A Charlie Brown Christmas to pieces in order to shoehorn more advertising into the broadcast. Quoting a smart blogger: “Cramming all of these ads into the 30-minute broadcast of ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’ required major edits to a cartoon that has spent 44 years now trying to remind us that Christmas is supposed to transcend crass commercialism.” Irony, anyone? (And I do mean hacked; follow the blog link above for a list of scenes cut.)
- Playgirl has received purported nude photos of Tiger Woods. It will consider publishing them if they can be authenticated.
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My 1995 Isuzu Rodeo 5-Speed with over 180k miles is still on its original brake pads. I’m like the extreme opposite of drive-with-both-feet-bitch. 😉
Slightly OT, but if Ingram wins the Heisman, does Daniel Moore get to paint his Heisman portrait?
Lee: If you tell me you’re on the original clutch, I’ll be even more impressed. 🙂
BamaDan: Absolutely not. You know, the university was right to sue him. He’s clearly nothing but a shameless opportunist. (Wow, I’m really ready for that suit to be dismissed or withdrawn.)
Yep. Still on the original clutch. Had to replace the starter in 1998 but pretty much everything else is original. And the majority of those 180k miles are city. I’m thinking Isuzu must have placed their prototyped top secret life-of-the-car brake pads on a production model and I got it. Of course I’m sure they’ll deny such a thing even exists.
I’m impressed. It’s trivially easy to preserve the brakes at the expense of the clutch, and vice versa. Getting 180K from both indicates an excellent owner. 🙂