Peter Vieira
Wow, you're reading this? Thanks! If you're into RC cars and I seem vaguely familiar, it's because I spent over 25 years writing and editing RC car news, reviews, and tech articles in print and online. What else, what else ... I have a degree in Film Studies (useless), most of a degree in Graphic Design (useful), and I'm married to a wonderful woman with horrible taste in men. Thanks to her, we have a terrific daughter who just earned her Journalism degree and is way, waaay more together that I was at her age. Or right now.
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Why pliers when wire cutters would more accurately reflect the artistic license you were looking for?
The Wicker Man joke was great, sorry you didn’t get the right reaction.
tired: flashing seat belt light
wired: mooning Puffalump
This idea will absolutely go over well with the Autopian staff and I see absolutely no flaws with this plan. Just a big ol’ bunny butt right in the topshot.
Usually I scroll the comments before I post but the comment count is currently 68 so…nice.
I feel your pain. I’m the funniest person at my job and I make the best jokes on Teams. But no one ever laughs
I always love a 69 joke. So there’s that.
I haven’t been appreciating Peter’s sense of humor enough.
But how could I when the these jerk editors don’t let the humor make it to the site?!
Try running a stand up comedy open mic sometime. I get a cavalcade of people who think they have crafted hilarity that doesn’t even enter the sphere of “pliers near a seat belt light.” If you’ve ever wondered why so many stand up comics are mean, it just takes a few years of open mics to get us there.
I left the mic pretty much as soon as I became a father and husband. I no longer hated myself and knew that other people loved me, so I didn’t need the immediate feedback of a crowd (or bored bar denizens, as many open mics are) to fill the hole in my soul.
Don’t get me started on the same cavalcade of people who drop 5 minutes of garbage because their friends told them “you are SO funny, man; you should do stand-up!”, think they are the second coming of Eddie Murphy, and drop my 58 Beta at the end. Those people didn’t get to come back (no mic-dropping was the only non-house-imposed rule. The ONLY ONE), and are lucky they weren’t physically thrown into the street.
Regardless, I think we are vehemently agreeing with one another.
Vehement is a bit of an understatement. I’m trusted by a long-running comedy club to run the open mic show, so I have to enforce a lot more rules, so multiple that one a bunch. And I’m nicer than the last two guys who ran it.
Damn Peter, get with the program!
j/k we love you here.