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Cars mostly have plenty of power anyway. It used to be that a 19 second quarter mile was slow. Nowadays anything slower than a 15.5 is unusual.

I bet NCR spent more than $29.9 million moving.

Repost that chart in the Rising Fuel Prices thread; some people might not be checking this one.

I know it's a cost issue, but Columbus had a thriving downtown rooftop pool bar culture in the '80s. It could be done again today, but everybody thinks that they are going to get a disease the second they kiss a stranger these days.

$3.32 here. They say that there was a lot of demand destruction, but are we at a point where the oil-delivery infrastructure in the U.S. is not compromised? I heard something about some trouble near Chicago last week, but perhaps everything else is running smooth for now.

This city doesn't interest me as much as it used to. I prefer California's smaller cities. Maybe there's just not enough neon pink stand-up Jet Skis, lifted Toyota trucks with KC Lites and net tailgates, C-list hair bands, chicks with big hair and yellow bikinis or lime green 2-stroke motocross bikes around town these days.

SLC's the kind of place that can't be accused of being a hippie/commie/latte-sipping loafabout city, much like Charlotte, Austin and Pittsburgh.

The area around the halfway house, drug/alcohol rehab and sheriff's office complex on Alum Creek Drive is a bombed out suburban wasteland with terrible mobility for those on foot.

It would make more sense to me if he was from Stoolbend Virgina.

During the two years I lived in West Virginia, when I would visit Ohio I did feel like Ohio was over-regulated. I always feel like I'm being watched here, whereas I didn't in WV. With one exception: Portsmouth. Nobody cares what you do there as long as you don't start a meth lab or get in a lot of bar fights. Also, in Appalachian Ohio and West Virginia I didn't feel a lot of pressure to "make something out of myself" like I do in other parts of the state.

ahahahahaha

I drank one while in the bathtub once. It was vile.

Don't forget that the way inflation is measured in the U.S. was changed in the early '90s, making it appear lower than it was before.

Internet killed the Skinemax star. Do they even make softcore porn any more? Probably have to go to a hotel and order it with one of those special N64 controllers.

Repo Man rules.

Man, I want to invent a time machine, travel to the '50s and start telling people about present times so I can get thrown into one of these places in their prime. Either that or contract TB.

And both those things got done!

There might not have been work for more than five guys that day. Counting hard hats isn't always the best way to determine if work is moving forward.

Do these road projects have funding issues?

When was that? It used to mean happy, like in the Flintstones when they would have a "gay ol' time" Pre-20th century. Go down to #6 http://www.cracked.com/article_19216_9-words-youve-used-today-with-bizarre-criminal-origins.html

I used to work with a couple of guys who lived there. They were always trying to get me to come over. I should have taken them up on it so that I could experience it before the redevelopment.

If these people hate taxes so much, they shouldn't drive. People are paying gas taxes every second their automobile runs.

Really generic terms such as "Near East Side" are probably going to go away as Columbusites rediscover the old names of our neighborhoods or rebrand areas that didn't have specific names. Pretty neat if you ask me. In 1990 people only knew Clintonville, Beechwold, German Village, Franklinton and maybe the Short North (I don't remember; it was mostly a place to get tires then). Everything else was just a Side.

Does this mean Atlanta sucks because the Thrashers left?

Argh, I've got a 400 here with a tape drive and tapes but the belt is broken on the drive. I wanna play some Hangman or States & Capitals.