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You see this album cover and know it's got to be good.

Remember on Married With Children where they'd have to "assume Fox network viewing positions"?

Kentucky isn't in denial about a lot of things that Ohio is. For being a "more conservative" state, they sure have made a lot of progressive decisions.

"Lord only knows the terror that lurks in the heart of Kane"

Well, after thinking about it for a while, we're starting to think that the Columbus streetcar/light rail project might be better off starting in a part of town that needs more help than High Street does, such as on Broad or Main. It might have been a good thing to take some time to reassess our plans. That's not the case in Cincinnati. Cincy's route is spot on. While Columbus does make up a much larger portion of the county than the suburbs do, much of the development in Columbus is in the suburban style. Folks living in those situations aren't necessarily pro-urban by nature even if they are city residents.

I don't think many people in the medical field get to bolt for meals.

Really, their training isn't even unimodal -- it's just culture. A bridge engineer can design any type of bridge, be it pedestrian, rail, bike path, highway or city street. A road engineer can do roads, train tracks, streets and trails. Traffic engineers can apply their skills to any kind of flow, be it road traffic, pedestrian, a supermarket, water, electricity or even money.

Did Smitherman call himself a stockbroker or did the reporter do that? What an old-fashioned term for that occupation. Calling yourself a stockbroker sounds cool if you're trying to impress a girl's dad in an '80s movie, but it's terrible for business.

It's not a "good school" for your kids if it requires jumping through a million hoops every day just to get them to and from it, no matter what the ratings say.

I'm not, it's Fox. :-D

Georgia? That's in Real America and everything. I've probably mentioned it before, but if you average a 3.0 in a West Virginia high school, you get free tuition to Marshall or WVU.

You know, Marysville might really be it now. Tons of American cars are assembled in Canada and Mexico these days.

Including the guys who show up for 6 weeks in fall quarter just to steal stuff out of the dorms. Mandatory military service is not only a good recruiting tool for those who want to fully enlist, it will help get rid of these stupid war hawks that don't understand the military and expose some of those suburban/exurban butterballs to fitness.

My favorite are the noise walls for houses that were purposely built next to active highways.

Pickaway County had some strange mission to make sure every road in the county was paved by 1983. There was only one road that they didn't get to by then -- that one got paved some time in the 2000s. It didn't matter that a lot of these roads only had 1-2 houses on them or that there's townships with only one or two businesses in the entire township. Those last road segments to get paved didn't even get any new houses on them after getting paved. There's no point in essentially paving people's driveways. Let some of 'em go back to gravel.

A lot of companies are as well.

The building that was there before was some kind of major sanitarium. It was the largest building under one roof in the Western Hemisphere when it was built.

Well, whatever they want to do. Rosemount Rd. makes people better drivers. Other states have stuff 10X as intense as that hill. Portsmouth will die even more without the traffic. All that will be built on the new road is one of those dry carryouts/gas stations that looks like a pole barn.

Wow. ODOT has no problem spending what, over a billion $$$$ or maybe even more on capping overpasses, re-doing on and off ramps, etc in downtown Columbus at the moment... but Cleveland desperately needs a new bridge that connects the entire westside to the city and 120,000 people drive on it everyday. I hate driving on that bridge, and it looks like other comments to that article hold the same feeling. Way to go ODOT, screw over NE Ohio again! http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php/topic,2924.msg598091.html#msg598091

This is intense!

There's always the 1 or 2 year mandatory military service that many countries have.

When it snows hard, the 'Nati's toast. One time it took my old roommate 5 hours to get from work in Blue Ash to home in Corryville when it suddenly snowed. And he was driving a Jeep. What I figured out to do since I had a 4x4 pickup with mudders was to pick the most treacherous road and just blitz it since people were too scared to use those routes. Another time I was on my way to Columbus and the Kenwood Cut looked like the beginning of Saving Private Ryan, so I bolted onto Madison and took it to Kenwood Rd in Madisonville. People were to scared to go up that thing with all that snow that I was able to chug up it with ease even though I was pulling a trailer. Sorta like using that secret back way into Indian Hill on US50 and the railroad underpass at the border of Terrace Park and Milford. I rarely saw trucks like mine until I'd get out to Eastgate or Fairfield, so I had a secret weapon.

Yes, I'm going to bookmark that. I've been looking for that graph for a while. It confirmed my suspicions about the popularity of full-size trucks and SUVs, the fact that cars have gotten much heavier since the '90s and how people now think everything needs 300 horsepower and those phenomenons' effect on fuel mileage. The U.S. vehicle fleet has NOT improved its mileage since 1989, despite claims otherwise. Now, as Sherman noted, mileage may be up a tick since 2007.

Probably because "job creators" are also "job eliminators", "job movers" and "hour reducers" depending on the needs of the company and its shareholders.

Being stupid used to get you killed. Then we started making everything out of Nerf.