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    11/23/09

    In reply to Top Gear Season 14, Episode 2: YouTube Open Thread
    Wow, that was fast...
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    11/23/09

    In reply to Top Gear Season 14, Episode 2: YouTube Open Thread
    One less TVR Chimera on the road that isn't mine can only be a good thing...

    And Geoff. Makes me wonder why Geo didn't launch an FF.
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    11/23/09

    In reply to Top Gear Season 14, Episode 2: YouTube Open Thread
    Fuck yeah!
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    11/17/09

    In reply to VIDEO: Jeremy Clarkson On Audi R8 5.2 FSI: "Perfect"
    Who cares? It doesn't have a diamond dust paint job! ;P #audir8v10
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    11/17/09

    In reply to VIDEO: Jeremy Clarkson On Audi R8 5.2 FSI: "Perfect"
    Love me some top Gear but I won't take driving tips from a man who has to wear a grandfather clock as a wristwatch. That and the part where the supercar sticks to the track thing. Give me a 60k Atom, then we will talk about tracks and engineering. #audir8v10
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    11/17/09

    In reply to VIDEO: Jeremy Clarkson On Audi R8 5.2 FSI: "Perfect"
    There must always be a fast blue car, which resides in a little corner of heaven, in my mind. It isn't the realization of this dream which beckons; I could stretch and actually make it mine, with a small exercise of effort and intent. Rather, this car exists more as an icon in the pantheon of my desire. As such, it is better to leave the appetite unwhetted. Because to appreciate the psychic pull of this desire, is to be alive. Yes? #audir8v10
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    11/17/09

    In reply to VIDEO: Jeremy Clarkson On Audi R8 5.2 FSI: "Perfect"
    Love it in blue. Would love it more if a blue ZR-1 drove up behind it and flashed its headlights. #audir8v10
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    11/17/09

    In reply to VIDEO: Jeremy Clarkson On Audi R8 5.2 FSI: "Perfect"
    Perfection is over rated anyway. #audir8v10
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    11/17/09

    In reply to VIDEO: Jeremy Clarkson On Audi R8 5.2 FSI: "Perfect"
    Once there was an elephant,
    Who tried to use the telephant
    No! no! I mean an elephone
    Who tried to use the telephone
    (Dear me! I am not certain quite
    That even now I've got it right.)
    Howe'er it was, he got his trunk
    Entangled in the telephunk;
    The more he tried to get it free,
    The louder buzzed the telephee
    (I fear I'd better drop the song
    Of elephop and telephong!)

    So I read this when I was in 11th grade in a poetry jam, and broke out laughing uncontrollably, no doubt frightening the a classroom full of younger students and their teachers. There's no way my teacher can forget me. No way. #audir8v10
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    11/17/09

    @Pessimippopotamus: You're unbelievable. I had to memorize something in school that I can't forget either. It was part of the "Ancient Mariner".

    And then there came both mist and snow.
    And it grew wondrous cold.
    And ice mast high came floating by, as green as emerald.
    And through the drifts the snowy cliffs did send their dismal sheen.
    Blah, blah, blah.

    I like your elephant poem better. #audir8v10
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    11/17/09

    @skaycog: You sir have memorized part of a classic and wondrous poem.

    It may not fit well into a Jalopnik comment, but you can feel assured that poem will last the test of time when the elephant poem is long gone.

    As for me we had to memorize the opening lines of the Canterbury Tales (in Ye Olde English to boot). I can't even spell them close to correctly, so I won't attempt to reproduce them here, but rest assured I have found no use for them whatsoever. However, I am quite pleased that I can remember them word for word now many years later. #audir8v10
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    11/17/09

    @skaycog:
    There once was anold lady that lived in a shoe
    She had so many kids
    Her uterus fell out..

    -Andrew Dice Clay #audir8v10
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    Image of skaycog was here skaycog was here
    11/17/09

    @Touched: You'll never forget it, even if you try. BTW, I'm not a sir. #audir8v10
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    11/17/09

    @skaycog: Humble apologies.

    It is also worthwhile to re-read many of those old books from literature class. As an adult, I've found quite a bit of interest in several of the books which I could barely finish in my high school/college days. #audir8v10
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    11/17/09

    @Touched: No apologies needed....how were you to know?

    I wish I'd paid more attention to lots of things in school, now that I'm an adult. Oh well, no use looking back. #audir8v10
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    11/17/09

    @skaycog: If you keep looking back, you end up tripping over your feet, on the way down the road to where ever you are going. #audir8v10
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    11/18/09

    @DoctorNine: Exactly! I guess that's why they call the past history. ;)
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    11/17/09

    In reply to VIDEO: Jeremy Clarkson On Audi R8 5.2 FSI: "Perfect"
    Where is he? Klaas Zwart's summer home? #audir8v10
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    11/18/09

    @Pessimippopotamus: Ascari's track actually
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    11/18/09

    @fstrthnu: Ascari's track, which is owned by Klass Zwart as with Ascari itself.
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    11/18/09

    @Pessimippopotamus: ...and you have officially owned me.

    #tips
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    11/17/09

    In reply to Top Gear Season 14, Episode 1: YouTube Open Thread
    This show is gorgeous in HD. #topgear
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    11/16/09

    In reply to Top Gear Season 14, Episode 1: YouTube Open Thread
    "BBC iPlayer is down for maintenance. We'll be back shortly."

    Aww F*** #topgear
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    11/16/09

    In reply to Top Gear Season 14, Episode 1: YouTube Open Thread
    Anyone know what the Stig was fiddling with on the BMW during the hot lap? Something on the center console, I know it can't be the shifter because both are automatics. #topgear
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    11/16/09

    @not_a_virus.exe.vbs: The 7 series has semi-auto options so it probably is the 'shifter'. May does the same in the earlier video too. #topgear
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    11/16/09

    @not_a_virus.exe.vbs: Think that's the i-drive. Controls all the spangly bits of the BMW. #topgear
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    11/16/09

    @Big_Adam: The iDrive is the last thing you want to fiddle with at 150 mph! #topgear
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    11/16/09

    @daemonoid: Didn't know those semi autos were so effective. I always thought the dual clutch was the best, didn't know semi-suto slushboxes were effective at apeed. #topgear
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    11/16/09

    @not_a_virus.exe.vbs: I wouldn't call it a 'slushbox'. Remember how quickly the IS-F's 8-speed "automatic" shifts? #topgear
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    11/16/09

    @A strolling player: SLUSH SLUSH SLUSH. Well at least till I drive it I will call it a slushbox. I REALLY like the dual clutch in the new M3, really smooth takeoff, no chunking like a regular automatic. #topgear
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    11/16/09

    In reply to Top Gear Season 14, Episode 1: YouTube Open Thread
    Awesome stuff. Can't wait to see what the rest of the series has in store.
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    11/16/09

    In reply to Top Gear Season 14, Episode 1: YouTube Open Thread
    Shhhhhh. You're not supposed to admit the existence of Top Gear on torrent. It's like admitting you can get free porn online.

    It so happens that they both result in the same thing. #topgear
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    11/16/09

    @Pessimippopotamus: Interest for 5 minutes, then moving on?

    .. #topgear
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    11/16/09

    @an gucci skyline mane: Where is the disapprove commenter button?

    You watch the last 5 minutes of this episode and tell me that it was uninteresting, I'd break your nose for lying. #topgear
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