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“Walter Mondial” makes me wish there were a deep and weird joke in Beverly Hills 90210. In that show, the twins Brandon and Brenda are from Minnesota, and share a car that they call “Mondale.” Local nepbaby Steve Sanders always drives a Corvette with a personalized license plate “I8A4RE” (I ate a Ferrari). Brandon should have totally scored a Mondial and challenged Steve to a race (hell, Brenda should have gotten it, now that I think of it). It would have made no sense and been for the wrong audience entirely.
Oh, shit, you went deep with this one.
Since you mentioned the birthday drawings, Jason, I just want to say how much I enjoy the 1972 Avanti you sent to me this past February. It’s the wallpaper on my desktop and it’s just gorgeous, man. I really appreciate the effort you put into it and the bit of Roy Lichtenstein treatment you gave it for effect.
When describing Elon, I prefer “chundering toolbag”.
Great Ferrari comeback, Adrian! I don’t drive one, but I do have a prancing moose badge on my Polestar 2 keyfob, since it’s basically a high performance Volvo EV.
https://i.ebayimg.com/thumbs/images/g/qXIAAOSwiC5hWeMs/s-l1600.jpg
I need a job. I’m not a thundering toolbag. I’m already in Austin. I also really like money. Lots of money. Think of all the poor life choices I could make with actual money. Maybe I could buy a sweet Tatra, or even another Puffalump.
Fire the toolbag and let me run Tesla. I can’t run it any worse.
Who would have guessed that, of all people, David Tracy is the one who actually steers this harem of maniacs somewhere close to the border with sanity?
Anyone?
You know how some countries go to complete shit when their dictator is disposed, because their reign of terror was holding the whole powder keg together? Same principle here.
Are we in the pre- or post- genocide era of Jasonia? I only just started training the munchkins in guerrilla warfare, I’ll be pissed off if it’s all for nought.
*naught
Wehoo! Wehoo!
Comment police initiate protracting devices!
“This one is busted sir.”
“Well then ignore it soldier!”
“And I still have I think one or two member birthday cars to draw.”
So the birthday drawings for velour members are real? I didn’t get one last May. I couldn’t tell if it was lost in mail or if the member gift of an original Torchinsky artwork was satire.
(also, why is my name showing up with my comments and not my username? I recall someone else mentioned having this problem a few days ago. It appears I can change my registered name away from my actual one, at least.)
You’re showing up as Stig’s Cousin to me?
I changed my name to “Stig’s Cousin” to avoid having my real name displayed (looks like that worked, at least). My username is something different. Before this, all of my comments only displayed my username. Not sure if I accidentally did something to change that, or if there is something wrong with the comment system?
Ah, weird.
RBF = Resting Brit Face? 🙂
Sweet. Just after my introduction to the phrase thundering toolbag was a TEMU add for weird cargo shorts that look like a perfect addition to a thundering toolbags wardrobe.
Should I click on the add and go all in?
#idiot goals
Cargo shorts are the only appropriate place to keep your thundering toolbags.
I prefer boxer briefs…
I get the weirdest assortment of crap in those Temu ads. Like, are these real products that exist, or just oddball assortments of pixels designed to scam elderly Facebook scrollers?
Either way, I’d err towards a no.
It’s like someone connected their 3D printer to their dreams somehow and they are trying to sell us their plastic hypnagogic creations.
We had a couple of Commodore PETs in elementary school that got wheeled from classroom to classroom for computer time. Complete with cassette tape drives.
I used to remember the POKE/PEKE codes to switch from CAPS to lower case, but it has fallen out of the memory buffers recently.
I haven’t had to type those commands in 37 years but they are POKE 59468,12 and POKE 59468,14.
Thanks! I figured somewhere here would know them.
Ooh, I missed that Ferrari burn since I’m avoiding “X”, good comeback.
A Commodore PET Model 4016! The sum total of hardware in my high school’s computer lab was three of those and a tractor printer, later supplemented by a floppy drive. Commodore BASIC 4.0 all the way!