Charlie Cat

@bluejay: keeping a 505 Turbo running in this day and age, in North America, takes an enthusiast.  Believe me, our 505 is far from being a beauty queen, but we still drive it regularly.

@x=usr(1536) If you say so.

@bluejay: given that Peugeot left North America in 1991, not many people who aren't enthusiasts are still driving them in this part of the world.

Dude, take a hint and shut your big mouth.

Dude, Rob, please go for a walk or something and cool down, for your own good.

@OSRG: Its okay sir. We understand how you feel. But we don't want to see you get in trouble and/or you banned! I respect you as a member and enjoy reading your postings on the "Games Beaten" section!

Can't remember the book off hand but there is a guy who read the entire Britannica a-z and wrote a book about it. It was a great read

You can still get new editions of World Book: https://www.worldbook.com/

My mom got me a set when I was in high school, but the payments were way too much so we had to send them back. I told her it was cheaper to get a PC from Radio Shack and a Growler's CD-ROM.

Oh remembering more, we always called his Festiva a Fiesta, ...He'd tell us that was wrong so we'd do it more haha...We were young bucks being stupid,...I still remember once, for some reason, he told us to get in and then drove to these dirt roads with hills and ice and he jumped the car, flattening the little back tire (which is tiny),...We went to the Mini Mart and bought some Fix-A-Flat and pumped it back up (Good as new! haha). 

When it comes to car models, they tend to get bigger for each generation. Most likely the Fiesta of the 21th century is as large or larger than the Escort in the 80's. The same goes for Volkswagen. The Golf used to be a small car in the size of an Escort, but nowadays can be had in full station wagon size. To be honest I'm not updated on what the smallest Fords and VWs of today are called, but for sure the popular model names have been retained and grown along with its owners. It is just like anyone who got an Escort or Golf as a single 20 year old, would want a family sized Focus or Golf as a 50 year old.

Jim Carrey deove one on a movie probanly 15  years ago. He said something like just think of the places we can go on a tank on gas. 

Tried my first Steak N' Shake burger last November and must admit that they a good burger and pretty good shake. Lots of shakes to choose from.

The SNS we got here in Fort Worth sucks - the waits are bad and there's no good service.

Closest to me is 200 miles away. I think I'm OK with not eating 5 Guys instead, right?

@Albert. Hahaha. I can see Albert won't be getting the Tempo anytime soon. Possibly its twin the Mercury Topaz in the future? 8^)

The only current Ford I'd be interested in is the Focus RS.

@Albert. Ah, a superb choice. I like the Focus Albert.

@GoldLeader... Hahaha. Yep that's true bro. I live were the pizza never sleeps. But I have to admit. The McPizza is really good that was one of my favorite commercial versions to eat. 8^)

Right on!  OK This is my last comment on other people's Status Updates,...Where I spam them about my Taco Bell adventures fer no good reason...haha...I really am on my way out the door right after this posts...I spent a lot of today out shoveling my driveway so my reward is good food (Or in this case Taco Bell!  LOL)....Laters!

No worries bro. It was work well done and you need to reward yourself with some great food...and Neo-Geo. 8^)

It means that it can be worse and they have an excuse. LOL I am pretty much done with Nintendo, Wii was the last one for me and my copy of Zelda is still sealed.

It gets beyond tiresome. Seriously.

Does anybody find it weird that fdurso224's status update is actually Nintendo CEO's status update? Perhaps we should storm his house!

Nice to see EXPs still running.  Not great cars by any stretch, but they do have their (very limited) place.

I used to always want a Porsche 928 too!  Once I actually called on one for sale, but it had already been sold.

My brother was actually gifted a 928 by a whack job ex-GF of his. They rented a nice house in 2018 off a retired dentist, and there was a Porsche 928 in the garage that the guy had bought new in 1984. But it had horrible, gross lower body cladding and fender flares that totally ruined the looks of the iconic 928. The dentist told them he'd have it out ASAP, and my brother said "cool car" to him. 

So his GF made a deal to buy it off landlord in secret to give to my brother. I think for $4k or something, but my brother had to tell her that he actually hates it. I think they sold it for $4k or a little over to recoup the money.

@fdurso224: I really doubt that the 127 is still on the road, unfortunately.  From what I recall, it rusted out about 3 years after it was given to me, but mechanically it was very sound even at the end.

The way that I ended up with the car was that it had been my mother's car, but she ended up buying a brand-new Honda Civic.  The 127 had had a new clutch about six months before she bought the Honda, and the local Honda dealer was going to give her less on trade for the 127 than the clutch replacement had cost.  My father decided that I needed something to learn to drive on, so it was passed on to me.  Got really good with it in the fields

In any event, it's a car I definitely have a soft spot for - and ditto Yugos as relatives.

@fdurso224: BTW, I should mention that we had that 127 in Ireland.  The only one I've ever seen in the US was registered as a 128 and was in far better (body) shape than mine ever was.

Amazing story and background @x=usr(1536). I can listen to you all day. Are you into playing games on the Neo-Geo? If o, come by the Neo-Geo thread and have fun on there. Would love to have you aboard with us. 8^)

@x=usr(1536) Plus, the right motor oil is crucial as well. I always use Castrol GTX in my Yugo ever since I purchased it. This commercial is why I felt Castrol was perfect for my car from that era.

@fdurso224: thanks! FWIW, I'm also on the Castrol GTX bandwagon - with the exception of the diesels, I run it in pretty much everything we've had.

My tastes typically run to French, British, and Italian - but anything interesting is game

@x=usr(1536) Amazing we have plenty in common. 8^) Castrol GTX is in just about every car that me and the family own and glad you do he same as well. 8^) Same here anything interesting is good with me as well. 8^)

How about Lost Monkey?

I think Shawn Sr. got booted when he publicly posted someone's (esplonky's?)homebrew ROM (Frog Pickle, I believe)for free downloading. The author is asking for a minimal fee for downloading the game.

I believe Chickybaby or her son had health problems that had to be dealt with.

Happy Birthday!

Happy birthday!!

I don't believe you.

Do you play both kinds of music? Country and Western?

Do you play both kinds of music? Country and Western?

@durFunkenstein "Hit it."

Fortunately spiders are pretty squashable.  However, if this had been a snake I would have just dynamited the house and called it a day.

I think this is the first time Garfield can't squash the spider.

In other strips, Garfield always succeeds.

No, I think the house didn't want to squish it. The house itself is afraid of the spider

I was also watching a video on the Oka recently. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9H22kCW5Dto

@fdurso224: I've met him as well - he had one of the pre-electrification Okas at the Fry's Electronics in Burbank, CA on a day I happened to go over there; this was likely back in the late '90s.  Spotted it as I was parking and had an, "it can't be..." moment.  Walked over and was checking it out as he came back and got to talking with him.

Tell me about your Yugo - I happen to have a certain sneaking fondness for certain ex-Soviet and -Eastern Bloc cars, and have owned a few.  Really loved my 1978 (IIRC) Skoda S110R and the Niva was a fantastic machine.  Wasn't as fond of the Fiat 126P, though - that one went away pretty quickly.

@x=usr(1536)

Somehow the Fiat 126 was he first car I fell in love with. I never would have known what an Oka is if not for the internet.

Costa Rica has had a Quarter Pounder-based Big Mac for a while.

In my McDees days, a common Bic Mac order was for a "Double Mac" which was a Big Mac with 4 dime patties instead of just 2.

Hardly anyone ever ordered a standard Big Mac unless it was a 2 for $2 weekend or something.

♫Tuesday's gone with the wind.I tell you, Tuesday's gone, oh she's gone with the wind.♫

Street Survivor's is my absolute favorite album. My dad has the ultra rare vinyl that was out only a week before the plane crash that killed Van Zandt. When they were standing in front of a flaming background. Has had it for 38 years.

WOW. Your father has a real gem Keith!

Comicon?

If she was up your butt, you'd know where she was.

I think it's in that trendy part of San Diego...Where those guys are always selling those cars.

I started my job in May 1995, still at it. I dare say I've aged better than Windows, lol

I didn't have a PC when it first came out, but I snagged a copy of it when I got the whole Windows SDK package at a thirft store a couple years later...

I was just out of college, not even a year et.  When I graduated and got my job, I bought a Pentium 1 PC with a big, beautiful and massive 17" monitor.  It came with 3.1, but if I remember correctly - and I could be wrong - it came with a free upgrade to Win 95.  Either that, or I bought 95 shortly thereafter, because I remember the apartment I was in when I got that.  For some reason I remember my neighbor, a nice, old lady, had received the package and I had to knock on her door to get it.  I liked 95, for the most part.

+1 7800fan +1

It's a one off, what is the big deal?

I don't see how you can confuse what looks like a glock with a paintjob for a Zapper, even if glocks are a good bit plastic. Oh well, if I had the time and a glock, I'd probably make something like that myself.

Bubsy fans should like the ! on Jon's shirt.

A classic strip.

@Hwlngmad So true Ryan. I use to belly laugh with this one. 

The 72W halogen bulbs I just bought say "Mercury Free", and while not as efficient as CFL, might be a possible stopgap solution.

All bulbs of the same wattage produce the same amount of heat. All the energy emitted by a lightbulb ends up as heat because of the second law of thermodynamics.

How many CFLs are actually properly disposed?

@Kiwi Thank you Kiwi. Meow-WOW! You're making me hungry. 8^) 

Happy Birthday!

No worries!   Happy Birthday Bro!

No way they'll ever go the way of Sega. They have much better IP and are far better game designers.

They may have good games, but they don't seem to be willing to put them on anything but their own systems. Even their foray into the tablet market is just licensing their IPs to other developers. I could easily see the games being on par with quality of Hotel Mario if their not lucky.

Nah they value their IP too much to do that, unlike Sega.