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What Are You Thankful For?
Detroit, 1:10 PM
Tue Dec 8
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Logan Wert is thankfulhe is named Logan and not Ray.
I am thankful Ray may laugh at this.
I'm also thankful I get to go to Paso Robles this weekend with my wife, two dogs and a huge car where gas wullbe reimbursed.
Also I love all of you... Even Rican 5.0
Be excellent to each other.
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That, and I occasionally get a kick out of some of his comments. And I friend people too often, anyway.
Good luck, Bravo. I, too, am hoping your situation improves during the holiday season
11/26/08
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And I'm thankful that I have four days to work on my personal PCH.
11/27/08
Happy thanksgiving to you, and the rest of your American countrymen.
11/26/08
Being bionic can have major benefits...!
[/Serious]
11/26/08
Also, I am thankful for the nitrogen (or CO2?) filled widget that makes my Guiness/Boddington's cans taste so much better - almost tap like.
11/26/08
It's quite simple really. Your beer is carbonated, just like any other. The widget is nothing more than a small hollow ball, floating on top of the beer within the can.
The ball has a small hole in it, and when in a sealed can, the pressure within the ball is at equilibrium with the rest of the can's contents. When you open the can, the airspace within the can depressurizes to match atmospheric. The ball, having only a small hole in it, takes longer to equalize with atmospheric pressure, and that is what you hear for a short time after opening the can.
A case could be made that the widget agitates the top of the beer within the can, and that the aeration does affect the flavor, but it really has more to do with the illusion that it is "adding" the carbonation after you open the can.
It doesn't make me not like my Guinness, though.
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11/27/08
Happy birthday, my friend.
11/27/08
@Deartháir wishes Mr. Barrett and Mr. Robber a happy birthday:
Yep. They're not variable, and I don't control their timing (the ole ticker does that), but they ARE high-tech valves, and they shall likely have a longer useful lifespan than I shall.
Check back with me on my 145th birthday at the "Sea of Tranquility Leisure and Retirement Village" in the sure-to-be-built Lunar Colony Alpha. Of course, I may just be a Futurama-style head in a jar by then...
11/27/08
We're discussing mounting a great big wing on him and covering him with decals.
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Tell your Pappy that this Jalopnik friend of yours sends his love and best wishes!
11/26/08
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I have no idea why that has stayed with me, but it was hilarious, after all.
11/26/08
Hint: not Stravinski.
11/26/08
"Dear heavenly, uh...spirit; Thank you for direct-port nitrous injection, four-core intercoolers, ball-bearing turbos, and titanium valve springs. Amen."
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Don't ask about that last one.
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...now I'm gonna hafta go through every damn post and look for it, my curiosity won't let me leave it alone.
11/26/08
I'm also thankful for every day my car starts. For highway onramps (especially when I'm not stuck behind someone who thinks going faster than the advised speed will cause their car to implode). For clutch pedals and shifters that make even the most pedestrian appliance kind of fun to drive. And of course for this place, and all the fine people here.
11/26/08
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You should hire some Canadian staff to cover for you on Thanksgiving, and you can cover for us on Christmas, Easter, St. Patrick's Day, Oktoberfest, Freshman Week, Spring Break, and all those other Holy Festivals that you heathen bastards don't celebrate.
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Deeeee-lish.
11/27/08
i was wondering how long it would take for you to make a poutine reference. apparently, now.
11/26/08
I'm thankful for horsepower. I'm thankful that someone has the balls to put all that horsepower in something that should have no right having that much, like a Cherokee or a Wagon. I'm thankful for human ingenuity, weather it be a basement-built Countach [jalopnik.com] or or a M5amino [jalopnik.com]
I'm thankful that hopefully the government will do the right thing and send Wagoner and Bob "The Builder" to the Guillotine/fire them, and be sure that Mulally knows that that could easily be him.
I'm thankful that I don't live in Mumbai. I'm thankful that Transporter 3 not worse, but that I found it a bit better than the last, but could have been a hell of a lot better. And I could do with the blatant automotive errors and inaccuracies (Peterbuilts in Ukraine?)
And I'm thankful that I have Jalopnik to entertain and inform me every day/suck up.
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It's a Crossover Utility Vehicle. Didn't you get the memo?
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