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03-16-24, 07:20 PM
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03-16-24, 07:33 PM
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I bet life was much simpler in the Boomer glory days. You just went to the record store and bought a 45.
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03-16-24, 07:34 PM
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I bet life was much simpler in the Boomer glory days. You just went to the record store and bought a 45.
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03-16-24, 07:49 PM
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I bet life was much simpler in the Boomer glory days. You just went to the record store and bought a 45.
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03-16-24, 07:54 PM
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If you're not lucky enough to live near a good ball-losing tennis court, you can order wheel tennis balls online at Albe's bike shop:
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https://www.albes.com/products/merritt-tennis-ball
03-16-24, 07:57 PM
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Stole this quote. Thanks
Road Cycling“It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.” -- Ernest Hemingway
Will rewrite its gist to shorten it.
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Will rewrite its gist to shorten it.
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03-16-24, 08:13 PM
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So, having extolled the virtues of my Dodge (10 years and over 100,000 miles with no breakdowns), the damn thing decided it was time for a coolant leak. I JUST made it home as the red light went on. Now here I am with a busted car in the driveway, and Mrs. GJ in SoCal with her car. I got a neighbor to pick up The Older Boy from work, and TOMORROW, I'll rent a car. Or maybe Monday.
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03-16-24, 08:15 PM
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So, having extolled the virtues of my Dodge (10 years and over 100,000 miles with no breakdowns), the damn thing decided it was time for a coolant leak. I JUST made it home as the red light went on. Now here I am with a busted car in the driveway, and Mrs. GJ in SoCal with her car. I got a neighbor to pick up The Older Boy from work, and TOMORROW, I'll rent a car. Or maybe Monday.
03-16-24, 08:16 PM
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03-16-24, 08:16 PM
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03-16-24, 08:23 PM
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03-16-24, 08:25 PM
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03-16-24, 08:42 PM
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03-16-24, 09:00 PM
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03-16-24, 09:05 PM
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@datlas My van is at the Honda dealer for service and saw this cutie with 32,000 miles on it. It’s no Saturn, but…
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03-16-24, 10:12 PM
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back in the 70’s a few of my friends went through a stage when they put car bodies on 4wd truck chassis … one had a 4wd Gremlin - think that one was on an old Bronco chassis … another had a 68 Camaro body on a 4wd chassis - this one was especially cool because he also had a front differential installed on the rear … 4 wheel steering … he would sometimes drive down the road sideways …
good times
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03-17-24, 06:24 AM
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Got buzzed this morning but when I replay the video it doesn’t look nearly as bad as I feel it should look, based on how the driver made me feel when he buzzed me.
Yes the above statement was on purpose.
Yes the above statement was on purpose.
03-17-24, 06:43 AM
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Where the hell is Bah Humbug ? Someone go to Boulder or Pueblo and do a welfare check on him.
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03-17-24, 06:52 AM
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Nothing shouts redneck quite like an amphibious swamp vehicle. 😄
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