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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    12/10/09

    In reply to You're Doing It Wrong 7.0: Ho-Ho-Horrible Edition
    Ah, Arkansas. Where else.

    (answer: Oklahoma)
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    Image of GreenN_Gold GreenN_Gold
    12/10/09

    In reply to BMW Buried In Snow: Reason #544 To Avoid Canada
    Reminds me of the Jeep commercial where all you see is a moving mound of snow as something burrows along underneat the surface. Then along comes a stop sign with just the top of it peaking out of the snow, and you can see the Jeep's brake lights under the snow when it stops at the stop sign. I liked that ad.
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    Image of Number_Six Number_Six
    12/10/09

    In reply to BMW Buried In Snow: Reason #544 To Avoid Canada
    Canada got six feet of snow? That's likely amazing news to the other 33,000,000 people who don't live in the Calgary area, where this snow drift formed.

    /I better go call my friend in San Diego to make sure she survived that storm that blanketed Chicago.
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    Edited by Number_Six at 12/10/09 4:54 PM Number_Six was starred Number_Six was unstarred
    Image of BaconSandwich and the generic grey civic of doom BaconSandwich and the generic grey civic of doom
    12/10/09

    @Number_Six: Makes me wonder whereabouts in Calgary it was. I know the Evergreen area got it pretty bad. It wasn't bad in Cederbrae, but there was a nice 4-5 foot tall drift along the one side of the road. I spent a good 4 hours or so shoveling on Saturday. I should have taken pictures of the poor bus stop that I dug out...
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    Image of Number_Six Number_Six
    12/10/09

    @BaconSandwich and the generic grey civic of doom: It was drifting quite high in a few places. I live in Crescent Heights and there is not much snow there. I'm pretty sure it did not snow six feet anywhere in Canada on the weekend.
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    Image of BigHarv BigHarv
    12/10/09

    @Number_Six: Yeah, I was going to say, my place in Bankview just south of downtown hasn't recieved more than a foot tops through all the storms, but with that brutal wind on Friday, I can see a drift like that forming.
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    Image of FrankGrimes FrankGrimes
    12/10/09

    In reply to BMW Buried In Snow: Reason #544 To Avoid Canada
    Hopefully they got a shop vac to get rid of all the snow in the interior before it melts.
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    Image of UDMan UDMan
    12/10/09

    In reply to Jalopnik Guide To Commenting: How To Be Awesome
    Ray, I see you're dusting off the old "Proper Etiquette for Commenting" post once again. I can almost understand why you keep posting this topic time and time again, but I thought the commentariant was on their best behavior lately. There was nothing over the top, nothing really noteworthy, and come to think of it, nothing really all that controversial.

    So why this time, why now? It really seems that you are making it all that more difficult for some of the new comers to earn their stars, and using the threat of removing stars from long time Jalops if they don't behave.

    Tell me I'm wrong....
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    Image of doug-g doug-g
    12/10/09

    @UDMan: Usually, when a man does something like this, it indicates one thing; his girlfriend is holding out on him.
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    AmishJohn promoted this comment Edited by doug-g at 12/10/09 4:55 PM doug-g was starred doug-g was unstarred
    Image of AmishJohn AmishJohn
    12/10/09

    @doug-g: It's the end of the year, and "The Talk" is one of his PMOs.
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    Image of Ray Wert Ray Wert
    12/10/09

    @UDMan: Because Nick Denton made me do it like he made the rest of the Gawker sites do it this week.
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    Image of Scandinavian Flick Scandinavian Flick
    12/10/09

    In reply to BMW Buried In Snow: Reason #544 To Avoid Canada
    Alternate title: "Prick gets a snow job"

    eh?
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    Image of leavethegun-takethecannoli leavethegun-takethecannoli
    12/10/09

    @Scandinavian Flick: I laughed.
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    Image of that ain't the way to have fun, son that ain't the way to have fun, son
    12/10/09

    In reply to BMW Buried In Snow: Reason #544 To Avoid Canada
    I have to relate a story.

    My wife and I moved to the Colorado front-range, SW of Evergreen, @ 9K feet of elevation, in January 1998.

    We're both D/FW natives. This was going to be adventurous on a grand scale, but we both embrace adventure.

    October of '97 had a truly nasty storm in which people died on the road to/from the airport because they got buried, and nobody could get to them.

    Our first really heavy snowfall experience was about 44". This is after we'd been prepped by a couple of 15"-20" storms.

    On my way home from work, in downtown Denver, 'bout three hours after people started urgently telling me to leave...there's a storm coming...I came across a couple of guys who'd abandoned their CRX w/Florida plates, roadside.

    I stopped and asked what was up. They said they tried to get to their folks' house, but couldn't make it up any of the hills.

    I said, "hop in, I'm going mostly that way, anyway." It was all of ten minutes out-of-the-way, if that, and I hadn't seen any other vehicles in a good while.

    I'm driving a '94 Grand Cherokee Ltd., V-8 w/QuadraTrac and new BFG A/T tires...I'm unstoppable.

    I take 'em home, and wish them well.

    Two days later, when we could actually get out of the "neighborhood", we were going down the sole paved in/out road, and I said to my wife, "hey, those guys I gave a ride to the other day...they're walking back to their car..."

    She suggested we stop and give them a ride back. I said, "nah, it's only about a 1/2 mile more, and you'll see why we don't want to get involved in a minute."

    When we reached the wide spot in the road where the CRX was abandoned, she said, "did their car get towed?!"

    I said, "oh, it's there...you see that three inches of radio antenna sticking out of the snow? That's it. Now you understand why I wasn't going to give them a ride back...they've got a solid two hours of digging to get it out, and I didn't see shovels in-hand."

    Snowplows + Mother Nature = pain
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    Edited by that ain't the way to have fun, son at 12/10/09 4:47 PM that ain't the way to have fun, son was starred that ain't the way to have fun, son was unstarred
    Image of Mr.choppers - Delenda Carthago Est Mr.choppers - Delenda Carthago Est
    12/10/09

    In reply to BMW Buried In Snow: Reason #544 To Avoid Canada
    At least no one drove over it.

    Also, all that snow in the interior will only be a problem if it ever gets warm enough in Canada to melt it.
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    Image of BigHarv BigHarv
    12/10/09

    @Mr.choppers - Delenda Carthago Est: It's Calgary, there'll be a chinook in the next week or so and most of the snow will melt away.
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    Image of leavethegun-takethecannoli leavethegun-takethecannoli
    12/10/09

    In reply to BMW Buried In Snow: Reason #544 To Avoid Canada
    If this vehicle is near a road, it might be possible that a sander or plow truck broke the window. I didn't read the story so I don't know the details. That broken window is horrible. But if the snow doesn't melt, the damage will be minimal.

    But the snow, the snow is awesome. Six feet in a weekend. Great! I love when the state shuts down the roads. Doesn't happen often in CT though.
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    Image of leavethegun-takethecannoli leavethegun-takethecannoli
    12/10/09

    @leavethegun-takethecannoli: It looks like he knew his window was broken and did nothing about it.
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    Image of Paul Y. can't get in the club; gotta parking lot pimp Paul Y. can't get in the club; gotta parking lot pimp
    12/10/09

    @leavethegun-takethecannoli: I once was witness to a hair over 7 feet in 4 days (December 2001, the Buffalo area). It was really amazing. However, it was lake-effect snow, so it was light and fluffy, and compacted relatively fast (down to a mere 3 feet or so).

    The streets were like canyons, and violating the driving ban was awesome. Lose it in a corner? That's ok, the banks are soft, and no one else is out!
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    Image of leavethegun-takethecannoli leavethegun-takethecannoli
    12/10/09

    @Paul Y. can't get in the club; gotta parking lot pimp: Driving on the shut down roads is awesome. It's like a ghost town.
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    Image of Ash78, cube farmer Ash78, cube farmer
    12/10/09

    In reply to BMW Buried In Snow: Reason #544 To Avoid Canada
    Maybe snow broke the window. We should track down that Toronto-based wanna-be-rasta baldhead and make him pay for it.

    A licky boom boom down.
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    Image of leavethegun-takethecannoli leavethegun-takethecannoli
    12/10/09

    @Ash78, cube farmer: Informer!
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    Image of Mobius Mobius
    12/10/09

    In reply to Jay Leno Building Stonkin' AMG-Powered German Hell Sled
    Purely in terms of car collection, I'd have to say Jay is quite far behind the Sultan of Brunei. That said, Jay doesn't keep them locked up and away from prying eyes.
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    Image of Kuro Kuro
    12/10/09

    @Mobius: The Sultan's "collection" is more an expression of mental illness than enthusiasm for cars. And yes, I'm serious. His compulsive hoarding is not something any of us should aspire to.
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    Mobius promoted this comment Kuro was starred Kuro was unstarred
    Image of Mobius Mobius
    12/10/09

    @Kuro: True, although his wealth is something to be envied. That said, I'd be happy with far fewer cars (I certainly won't need three F50s) and actually drive them. I mean, in my six years in Brunei I didn't see a single McLaren F1, or Cizeta, or Dauer, or any other mysterious super supercar in his collection. Shame.
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    12/10/09

    In reply to Jalopnik Guide To Commenting: How To Be Awesome
    Yes, Sir! I shall keep those Jalopnik commandments close at heart. That said, it is sometimes so hard to resist calling out a dbag or dumbass commenter, hard as I try. :)

    Also, if only we could demote them...

    Also, your personal hate page is rather empty at the moment, but we could help!
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    Image of Paul Y. can't get in the club; gotta parking lot pimp Paul Y. can't get in the club; gotta parking lot pimp
    12/10/09

    In reply to You're Doing It Wrong 7.0: Ho-Ho-Horrible Edition
    I particularly enjoy 15. I tend to do that in the driveway when we have a foot of snow overnight, and it doesn't get plowed until noonish (I work at 8, of course).
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    Image of Paul Y. can't get in the club; gotta parking lot pimp Paul Y. can't get in the club; gotta parking lot pimp
    12/10/09

    @Paul Y. can't get in the club; gotta parking lot pimp: That is to say, that will happen to me tomorrow.
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    Image of dragon951 dragon951
    12/10/09

    @Paul Y. can't get in the club; gotta parking lot pimp: You work at an extra long ghetto conversion van?
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    Paul Y. can't get in the club; gotta parking lot pimp promoted this comment Edited by dragon951 at 12/10/09 4:45 PM dragon951 was starred dragon951 was unstarred
    Image of Paul Y. can't get in the club; gotta parking lot pimp Paul Y. can't get in the club; gotta parking lot pimp
    12/10/09

    @dragon951: Well, you got a LOL out of me, anyway. I didn't even think about that.
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    Image of tonyola tonyola
    12/10/09

    In reply to Jay Leno Building Stonkin' AMG-Powered German Hell Sled
    Wonderful. This car is like David Niven as the Incredible Hulk. Piss off the suave, elegant guy in the tuxedo and he turns big, green, and destructive.
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    Image of vwminispeedster, pronounded Si-trow-in vwminispeedster, pronounded Si-trow-in
    12/10/09

    In reply to You're Doing It Wrong 7.0: Ho-Ho-Horrible Edition
    As a fan of Team Eyesore racing from LeMons I see nothing wrong with #3.
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