Well, he only has one left thumb, instead of two, so...

Too soon, ya reckon?

One of the nicest truck beds I've seen...

I could get into it, but, I'm not sure I could get out of it in the morning.

The gas pump nozzle is a weird touch. Who wants to emulate sleeping in a truck bed at a gas station? Sleeping in a truck bed is going further than I would want to go, but I can see it. But the gas station bit?

the fumes will get you overnight.

What make you think it's in a station and you didn't just drive off with the hose still attached because the hooker you picked up came running out with a handful of cash waving a gun?

Good times...

Shift knobs you can't afford...

Moving Lucy for the last time...

I love the county prison shift knob.

Do you remember Eddie the Eagle?

Only just!

His name surfaces from time to time (this being one of them) so I did the obligatory search to find out more about him.

I was surprised to learn that his story was the subject of a film made in 2016.

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Link

ETA The DVD is available on Amazon for £4 ($5.20) and 737 reviews give it a rating of 4.6.
I'll have to see how much loose change there is in the car ashtray.

Fantastic movie!!!

:thumb::thumb:

Pretty good run, probably Mickey Thompson's son Danny who set a 448.757 record for a piston driven vehicle.

McD's

There's a great movie about the rise of the McDonald's empire starring Michael Keaton, plus Nick Offerman and B. J. Novak in side roles. Can't remember the name of it, but the short version is those two guys in the picture got screwed.

Screwed by Ray Kroc, Richard Nixon's largest money donor.

I've been to the site of the first one Ray Kroc opened. The replica-museum on that site is in the process of being torn down:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/busine...724-story.html

There's a modern functional McDonald's right across the street.

I remember 15 cent burgers, 2 burgers, fries, and a drink for less than a buck.

♫ Those were the days my friend
We thought they'd never end
♪ We'd sing and dance forever and a day
♫ We'd live the life we choose
We'd fight and never lose
♪ For we were young and sure to have our way

And the along came JFK and LBJ, Nixon, and Vietnam. :(

Gawd you must be old. I remember when they were 79¢.

:lol2:

Not age, location, location, location. The burger chains spread to the civilized states first.

A friend in Texas told me he drove around the Indy track a couple weeks ago and was surprised how little banking there is.

12 degrees banking at Indy.

CDN Pacific...

I miss miniskirts, although I never wore one, and probably only 10% of those who did were completely comfortable in them.

Where's the one with knees touching but feet wide apart? That's me.

Well hello there...

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Pfft. Apparently I'm sexually interested in everyone, everywhere, including when I'm alone.

Or you're often fantasizing. Either way,

Well hello there... :joylove:

That list is questionable, at best.

You wanna know if a woman likes ya? Look at her feet.

If they're behind her ears, she likes ya a lot.:yesnod:

Cash and carry...

I'm having trouble accepting this...

Snopes and several other sites do a thorough job debunking this April Fool's Joke:
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/el...ying-lion-cub/

Not surprised in the least, just too outrageous.

The bastards running JC Whitney, the Warshawskys...

I bought lots of things from them during my younger, poorer days.
Most of them even worked.

Yeah, so did I but I was lucky not to get screwed because I was too young to have a credit card when everyone got screwed.

This is apparently a common clothesline for apartment dwellers in Japan.
It's a screen capture from a XXX video and they don't budget much for props.

How trees grow limbs...

Fascinating. Now I am wondering about sapwood vs. heartwood where the limbs intersect with the trunk. In a tree, the sap travels through the outer sapwood, and the heartwood is dead, but what path does the sap follow to get to the limbs? There appears to be no capillary connection between the sapwood of the trunk and the limbs. Is the pith (the center) of the tree also a carrier of sap? Is the pith alive, and the heartwood dead, and the sapwood alive?

Incidentally, the sapwood carries a decay resistant compound, which is why this post has rotted away in this pattern. The living part of the tree (when it was cut down) hasn't rotted away, and the dead part has. I guess I answered my own question.

The cambium layer under the bark goes up the trunk and out the limbs, there's no break between the two. The cambium builds new wood and feeds the leaves the water to photosynthesise food for the tree.

Actually it's really mind boggling looking at all the things that come into play to keep the Earth as we know it doing it's thing reliably.

I liked the old siggy better.

yeah, it's not a *law*, more of a guideline, really.

A young teen standing in the backseat of his Dad's convertible near the finish line snapped the only picture of the Snake during this incident with the last picture on his roll of film.

Good to know...

Water isn't the only place to find fish...

I'm liking the StarFish Trek Enterprise one.

Ho Ho Ho...

Man, that looks like one of my exit/on ramps.

I guess it looks like a lot of exit/on ramps.

Yeah, if they don't put in a cloverleaf, this is the alternative.

It fooled me, I had to make sure it wasn't the ramp I used for 28 years.

Want... without the contents...

Maybe getting old can have an up side...

The good thing about getting old is that it don't last long.

That ride will get ya to the end quicker if nothing else...

Whoopee Wookiee...

You use Arabic numbers every day. You have a passing knowledge of Roman Numerals, kind of give me a minute I'll figure it out. You can now add Babylonian numbers to your resume...