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1st 5er wrote:Over dinner tonight my wife says, "An Audi tried to take me today", I looked at her and cracked up laughing.
After our laughter subsided and I regained my composure I asked, "So, what did you do?".
She replied, "I didn't let him". I cracked up again. Jason's Deli serves good groceries.
That is OUTSTANDING.

My wife and I do stoplight drags on the way home from church.
After years of getting frustrated at my POS 25+ year old BMWs beating her '04 x3 (3.0 6MT), she's finally learning how to drive. I was behind her this past sunday and would have had to really hang it out to pass her. She was happy.
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ldsbeaker wrote:That is OUTSTANDING.

My wife and I do stoplight drags on the way home from church.
After years of getting frustrated at my POS 25+ year old BMWs beating her '04 x3 (3.0 6MT), she's finally learning how to drive. I was behind her this past sunday and would have had to really hang it out to pass her. She was happy.
Why would you have 2 cars coming from the same place, going to the same place?
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WilNJ wrote:
ldsbeaker wrote:That is OUTSTANDING.

My wife and I do stoplight drags on the way home from church.
After years of getting frustrated at my POS 25+ year old BMWs beating her '04 x3 (3.0 6MT), she's finally learning how to drive. I was behind her this past sunday and would have had to really hang it out to pass her. She was happy.
Why would you have 2 cars coming from the same place, going to the same place?
Sometimes we have additional meetings either before or after church, so location is same, but timing may be off.
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1st 5er wrote:Over dinner tonight my wife says, "An Audi tried to take me today", I looked at her and cracked up laughing.
After our laughter subsided and I regained my composure I asked, "So, what did you do?".
She replied, "I didn't let him". I cracked up again. Jason's Deli serves good groceries.
Well, my wife's never quite done that, but she did find the rev limiter on the E12 a few times getting into traffic. :D
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Mike W. wrote:Well, my wife's never quite done that, but she did find the rev limiter on the E12 a few times getting into traffic. :D
I don't know why it is, but I love watching rally car videos just to hear them bouncing off the limiter.

Rally Portugal 2012 coming this weekend, and a family friend will be performing at the opening.

http://www.arrepiado.com/videos/videos.html (Smart Car powered by engine from a GSXR 1000)
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I spend entirely too much time on this website. The bright side of that is it keeps me up to date on my disgusting sex acts.
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I was just thinking. Since the new M5 puts audio of the engine out thru the stereo, when you blow it up and throw a rod does it go tap tap tap tap tap boom or just the normal vroom vroom?
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ldsbeaker wrote:
1st 5er wrote:Over dinner tonight my wife says, "An Audi tried to take me today", I looked at her and cracked up laughing.
After our laughter subsided and I regained my composure I asked, "So, what did you do?".
She replied, "I didn't let him". I cracked up again. Jason's Deli serves good groceries.
That is OUTSTANDING.

My wife and I do stoplight drags on the way home from church.
After years of getting frustrated at my POS 25+ year old BMWs beating her '04 x3 (3.0 6MT), she's finally learning how to drive. I was behind her this past sunday and would have had to really hang it out to pass her. She was happy.
Reminds me of The Friendly Persuasion with Gary Cooper and Grace Kelley. The movie opens with them racing Simon Oakland to church.
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A nice looking woman came up to me in a store parking lot and handed me a "Watchtower". The top button of her blouse was open and she had some really nice jugs.
This world is a farce.
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Reddit is having a political gif war. Let me tell you a story:
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Xenocide wrote:Reddit is having a political gif war.
A political war on Reddit? :shock: You don't say...

Somebody call Drudge!!

</sarcasm> ;)

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oldskool wrote:A nice looking woman came up to me in a store parking lot and handed me a "Watchtower". The top button of her blouse was open and she had some really nice jugs.
This world is a farce.
Was this on March 30? Maybe she was observing?
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I came home from my MIL's 80th Birthday. We held it at a local yuppy tavern where her oldest grandson is tending bar. Please no mother-lin-law jokes, Phillipa is great lady. I rigged up the battery charger to BB Shiftless because a door was ajar and the interior light was dim. I made a loaf of sandwich bread . I have been fine tuning a new recipe with a 60:40 combo of King Arthur flour and KA white whole wheat flour. A good dollop.(1/4 cup) of molasses, 2 tsps yeast. some salt . Now the experiment, 12oz buttermilk with an egg beaten into lt with a fork. Top off with water for 16 fluid oz. Plug the Zojirushi in and set it for 3:40. The aroma of it baking is worth the price of admission. Let alone the brown loaf with a real crust and a chewy texture. I had to adjust the liquid. Too much and the bread will souflee and mess up the top crust. Best is just under the inside of the lid. Like today's batch. :banana:
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Funniest thing Ive heard all day.

"I hate being bipolar, its awesome."
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a wrote:I came home from my MIL's 80th Birthday. We held it at a local yuppy tavern where her oldest grandson is tending bar. Please no mother-lin-law jokes, Phillipa is great lady. I rigged up the battery charger to BB Shiftless because a door was ajar and the interior light was dim. I made a loaf of sandwich bread . I have been fine tuning a new recipe with a 60:40 combo of King Arthur flour and KA white whole wheat flour. A good dollop.(1/4 cup) of molasses, 2 tsps yeast. some salt . Now the experiment, 12oz buttermilk with an egg beaten into lt with a fork. Top off with water for 16 fluid oz. Plug the Zojirushi in and set it for 3:40. The aroma of it baking is worth the price of admission. Let alone the brown loaf with a real crust and a chewy texture. I had to adjust the liquid. Too much and the bread will souflee and mess up the top crust. Best is just under the inside of the lid. Like today's batch. :banana:
You might be interested in my Moms strore, http://www.sweetbakingsupply.com
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I think the new N20 turbo four cylinder engine would be really cool in a 2002 or an E21 with a 6-speed. I'm just sayin'...
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I had a dream last night that tore me to pieces. . . well,. . . it was a kitten that that was torn to pieces. Weird.
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Saw a work order come in today for the county jail, it's the biggest county building so nothing odd there. It was for painting the "Sobering Cell' floor. WTF, it's not a drunk tank anymore? :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: So when did that change? :roll:
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One thing that I really, really hate is when you're shopping online for something and the page provides an itty bitty little picture of the product with an Enlarge button nearby, but when you hit Enlarge, all it does is open the same itty bitty little picture in another window. :facepalm:
Yeah, life is pretty good today when something like that gets my goat. :banana:
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davintosh wrote:Yeah, life is pretty good today when something like that gets my goat. :banana:
I've been having a lot of those moments lately.
They've been catching my attention and my attitude towards them is changing daily.

SO THANKFUL for just having "First World Problems".
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While tearing up sub floor today my wife and I found a stash of dirty hand written letters, x rated home videos, sex photos, and swingers magazines. I would post the picture of the stash but this is a family site.
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jhall wrote:this is a family site.
:confused: To which site are you referring?
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I started trying to rationalize getting a second engine stand, then I presented my findings, and that's when the fight started... :lol:

On a lighter note, I pulled my brother's engine in 1.5 hrs from hood up to engine out today :wrenchtime:
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jhall wrote:While tearing up sub floor today my wife and I found a stash of dirty hand written letters, x rated home videos, sex photos, and swingers magazines. I would post the picture of the stash but this is a family site.
Post or you lose at least 200 internets.
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Oh hey, last week I paid off my M5. Now I have to wait for the title. *sigh*
:banana: :banana: :banana:

More money for euro bumpers. I think I'm going to do double euro bumpers. Would that look cool?
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How many people here remember George McGovern? Here in his home state, we'll never be allowed to forget him. He ended up in the hospital last weekend for some old guy malady, and of course the story makes top billing in the local news. That's all well & good that the media here keeps tabs on him & all, but do they have to refer to him as "former South Dakota senator and Democratic presidential
candidate George McGovern."


The man not only lost that race FORTY YEARS AGO, but did so in a flippin' landslide!
I know there's a pretty low threshold for newsworthy events here in SD, but CAN WE MOVE ON PLEASE?

You would think that the Democrats in the news media would be the first to want to forget that humiliating defeat. :roll:
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alijonny wrote:
jhall wrote:While tearing up sub floor today my wife and I found a stash of dirty hand written letters, x rated home videos, sex photos, and swingers magazines. I would post the picture of the stash but this is a family site.
Post or you lose at least 200 internets.
If I get in trouble I'm blaming you.

The hole is an old heat register from what I can tell and the stuff was tucked inside the duct from the basement.

The photo on top is the cleanest of the lot. :rofl: :shock:

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davintosh wrote:How many people here remember George McGovern? Here in his home state, we'll never be allowed to forget him. He ended up in the hospital last weekend for some old guy malady, and of course the story makes top billing in the local news. That's all well & good that the media here keeps tabs on him & all, but do they have to refer to him as "former South Dakota senator and Democratic presidential
candidate George McGovern."


The man not only lost that race FORTY YEARS AGO, but did so in a flippin' landslide!
I know there's a pretty low threshold for newsworthy events here in SD, but CAN WE MOVE ON PLEASE?

You would think that the Democrats in the news media would be the first to want to forget that humiliating defeat. :roll:
True, such shame, an honest man losing an election to a crook like Nixon who resigned in disgrace if you recall. And while I'm not personally familiar with the radio station you posted the link from, any one that headlines Laura Ingram isn't likely to be sympathetic to the Demo party.
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