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Boo! I'm laughing. I shouldn't be, but I am.

I just saw this posted on Facebook by one of the Atom guys. Apparently, the Atom was on the show last night, and there's a new leader in town! I don't follow Top Gear, but I presume this would be the American version of the show? I've Googled it and can't find anything. Just curious as to which iteration of the Atom this was? Did anyone see the show? Was is a standard Atom 3 or a 500 V8?

Sad news today... http://todayentertainment.today.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/02/29/10540912-monkees-star-davy-jones-dies-at-66 Thanks for the memories, Davy! I absolutely loved the Monkees TV show. It was part of what made the late 60s such a special time for little kids.

The other one I can't seem to post says, "Never make eye contact while eating a banana."

Yes, like Macallan 18 single malt intoxicating.

^ One of my friends who I met along the road when I was passing through New Hampshire in my motorhome is trying to build something like this (based on the last picture above). He had linked me to this exact same builder's website several months ago, and asked: "Out of everything you see, what do you think is the coolest?" When I wrote back, picking out that same vehicle (based on an old pickup truck), he said "Exactly!!!" That's essentially what he wants to build. So his next step was to buy this massive old fire truck for something like $1,500. I've just emailed him to see if he can resend those pics. It's an old truck but the engine has very low miles, so that's what he's going to use along with the frame from some old (50s) pickup truck. I'll post pics when he resends them to me. He's done some amazing metal fabrication projects (motorcycles and such), so he's got the skill sets to pull it off. He's become a good email buddy of mine. We met when I had a need for some welding on the back of my trailer as I was passing through the White Mountains region. He and his wife took me in like a family member, and I ended up spending 3 nights parked on their property. He owns a place called "Bumper to Bumper" which I think is aptly described. He can do pretty much anything, mechanically speaking, plus towing (and now putting out fires).

Chris Rock's take on animation, in case anyone missed it: http://oscar.go.com/blogs/real-time/20

Saw blade that can stop in 1/1000th of a second to avoid cutting your finger off... http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=E3mzhvMgrLE&NR=1

Happy birthday!!!

I hesitated to post because there were so many, but very few are groaners.

As puns go, some of these are not too bad... 1. The fattest knight at King Arthur's round table was Sir Cumference. He acquired his size from too much pi. 2. I thought I saw an eye doctor on an Alaskan island, but it turned out to be an optical Aleutian. 3. She was only a whiskey maker, but he loved her still. 4. A rubber band pistol was confiscated from algebra class, because it was a weapon of math disruption. 5. No matter how much you push the envelope, it'll still be stationery. 6. A dog gave birth to puppies near the road and was cited for littering. 7. A grenade thrown into a kitchen in France would result in Linoleum Blownapart. 8. Two silk worms had a race. They ended up in a tie. 9. A hole has been found in the nudist camp wall. The police are looking into it. 10. Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. 11. Atheism is a non-prophet organization. 12. Two hats were hanging on a hat rack in the hallway. One hat said to the other: 'You stay here; I'll go on a head.' 13. I wondered why the baseball kept getting bigger. Then it hit me. 14. A sign on the lawn at a drug rehab center said: 'Keep off the Grass.' 15. The midget fortune-teller who escaped from prison was a small medium at large. 16. The soldier who survived mustard gas and pepper spray is now a seasoned veteran. 17. A backward poet writes inverse. 18. In a democracy it's your vote that counts. In feudalism it's your count that votes. 19. When cannibals ate a missionary, they got a taste of religion. 20. If you jumped off the bridge in Paris, you'd be in Seine. 21. A vulture boards an airplane, carrying two dead raccoons. The stewardess looks at him and says, 'I'm sorry, sir, only one carrion allowed per passenger.' 22. Two fish swim into a concrete wall. One turns to the other and says 'Dam!' 23. Two Eskimos sitting in a kayak were chilly, so they lit a fire in the craft. Unsurprisingly it sank, proving once again that you can't have your kayak and heat it too. 24. Two hydrogen atoms meet. One says, 'I've lost my electron.' The other says 'Are you sure?' The first replies, 'Yes, I'm positive.' 25. Did you hear about the Buddhist who refused Novocain during a root canal? His goal: transcend dental medication. 26. There was the person who sent ten puns to friends, with the hope that at least one of the puns would make them laugh. No pun in ten did.

Congrats! Such a precious and tender moment in life. Enjoy every day with your new bundle of joy!!!

Lucky you! I've love to see her some day.

One of the guys on my favorite Santa forum posted this today: I thought I would share with you a new belt and buckle I received yesterday, wear it with Santa Causal Clothes or just street clothes. I purchased it on ebay http://www.ebay.com/...#ht_3169wt_1141 Note that he never actually says that his buckle says "SANTA" as opposed to "BOY TOY"

Don't mess with Coke!

Crappy, that's some fucked up shit you're dealing with. I've been following along, not really knowing exactly what to say. Sounds like that TA is a complete nut case, and needs to get laid. Maybe you'll be just the right man for that job...

Nice review, Dinny. Short and sweet. The only thing I would add would be, "If you want to know if it's right for you, well then, I'd suggest that you give it a listen and decide for yourself."

I think he was in a barbershop quartet in Skokie, IL, at that time.

Ha!!! I guess you could say so, at this point. My dad passed away in 2007. But you might want to let her get past the 5 year mark in May. She seems to be focused on that, of late.

Oh... I forgot to mention, it's my mom's birthday today as well. She became a septuagenarian.

Happy birthday, Dan! Thanks for all of the work you do around this joint.

More like the Beverly Hills of Europe, except with the availability of very high priced Russian whores (<-- or whatever the politically correct word is).

I started to search around to see if he lived, and sure enough he did. Managed to pull his chute and such. Two broken legs, one of which is rather extreme with multiple fractures. Says that he's thankful that he still has legs to rehab. Says that the reason he crashed is that he was trying to kick a black ballon that was on the ground in that general area. Alrighty then... makes perfect sense...