Brian Coltrane

Then you must be stark ravin' bonkers, 'cause you were here first.

Wait...what does that say about current Moderators? Are you suggesting that MaryAnne is as crazy as a loon?

You might be a redneck, if the Cracker Barrell hired a bouncer to keep you out.
Brian

Chet, it doesn't surprise me to hear that you fire a lot of blanks. Bahahaha.
On another topic....
How can ya tell when sour cream goes bad? I've got a baked potato ridin' on this one.
Brian

Catching up to all this - I think there's good reason some of us haven't anagramed our names before. Yow.
I was trying to anagram an entire message using MaryAnne's name, but it was turning into an unspeakable disaster. I think I'd better stay out of the puzzle business.

It took me days to recover from that one.
Also took me awhile to find a suitable reply. I give you:

...getting paid for being laid.... nice work if you can get it.

Uhhhh.....
Considering it's one of the drinking anthems around here (and probably around the world) I couldn't say never. Sweeeet Caaar-o' line....ba ba ba! Good times nevah seemed so good (so good! so good! so good!)
Now I gotta find another song to post before I can't get Sweet Caroline outta my head.

BAHAHAHA!! I think some people are looking at it now and saying WTF...

Hmm! Looks more like, "Two Warriors Came Through the Windshield."
Guess I'm not that cultured when it comes to fine art. Heh!

The Brewers bit the dust tonight and fell to the Cardinals. I didn't have money (or worse) on this, did I?

Howdy, JulieDuke -
Yeah, it'd be great if my car could drive me home, in the event I had been out on the town and had too much to drink. 'Cept for one thing; it all comes down to whether or not I could trust the car.
My car would amble down some godforsaken back road at 3 a.m., and then trigger the ejector seat and send me sprawling into a cornfield. I'd wake up the next day thinking a twister had hit.
And is 325 mph any advantage, when the car can drive itself? For example, what am I going to do, if I want to go down the block for a hamburger, but the car decides that it would rather go to Boise, Idaho? I'd end up in Boise pretty darn fast. (Unless the ejector seat got activated en route, and then I'd have a new career as an astronaut.)
Brian

RJ, I know what ya mean. The overall look of the car - stance of the wheelbase, the design of the chassis - speaks for it's street presence. But it's a good idea to have somethin' decent under the hood that compliments the exterior.
MaryAnne, to reply to yer post while I'm at it .... yeah, your car probably would behave, if it was self-automated. Except for a few things:
It would constantly be running itself through car washes, and admiring it's own reflection in store windows.
If the paint got scratched, it would hightail itself over to an autobody shop and blow the horn until it was let in.
If it saw a parade, it would jump in line and join it.
Man, talk about vanity plates.
Brian

Having a car that could drive itself would be neat to certain point. Like if the weather was bad, and the car brought itself to the door for ya. Or you could send the car out on errands, while you stayed home to enjoy another episode of Dukes of Hazzard.
The downside is, not all self-automated automobiles would be as obedient as KITT.
My own car, if self-automated, would probably wander off for an oil change at inopportune moments and leave me stranded. It would also play tricks on me, like re-parking itself once I walk into the store. I also wouldn't be surprised if it bullied small cars and chased them away from gas pumps.
The ultimate worst-case scenario is the car getting more tickets on it's own, then I do with it. Try telling that one to the judge.
Brian

I think the outcome purely depends on the type of contest. The General is more visibly impressive doing 180's, due to the longer chassis.
KITT, however, would trounce the General at a spelling bee.
Ya gotta pick yer battles.
Brian

And David Hasselhoff's first wife looked like Marilyn Monroe who was President Kennedy's mistress but of course that was a secret but everybody knew it because the alligator squealed.

I think Supernatural might have "jumped the shark" tonight. It was a cool episode, but talk about getting Dean in over his head. Like way over.
At the end of the last season, Dean dies and goes to hell. (this is a fairly standard Winchester family tradition by this point.) In tonight's season opener....pow! He's outta there in the first few minutes of the program, alive and whole, and we get to scratch our heads for the next 40 minutes wondering how that neat trick was accomplished.
When it's explained, it's so over the top, that you have to wonder how this latest entrant to the war on free-range demons is going to mix with the show's usual tone. Or how Dean is going to get along with the particular chaperone he's picked up.
Let's just say there's "touched by an angel" and then there's "cast-iron fry pan over the head by an angel."

In addition to giving credit for some great writing on this show - we have to give credit to the actors, too. I remarked early on that Sam and Dean were not unlike an urban, edgy, Bo and Luke, in some respects. (though in a far more serious environment.)
In a nutshell, there's good chemistry in Supernatural and the characters are believable as family members.
My main concern for this show - is that it could write itself into a corner by spending so much of its good stuff early.
At the end of Season One, we saw the Impala get T-boned by a semi truck, and at the opener of Season Two, we saw Dean nearly die, and not for the first time in the series. ( though by far this was the most dramatic and closest near-miss yet.)
There's only so many ways you can bash up the car and have it plausibly fixed. Only so many times you can almost kill a character. Supernatural entertains with shock and surprise, but all the big-ticket eeks are getting used up fast. ( I'm sure Sam will have his turn flirting with oblivion for the Season Two cliffhanger.)
Another challenge is maintaining the continuity. Supernatural has done an effective job of keeping things fresh while having a progressive order to the episodes. Sooner or later though, either the Objective Is Met , or too many complications occur and storylines fragment on the least tangent. (I think Smallville is guilty of the latter, IMO.) Continuity is a double-edged sword, which may explain why something as light as Dukes of Hazzard was wise to avoid it.
Awright, I'm done analyzing this for awhile. Meadowmufn's gonna think I'm bucking for a moderator job over at the Supernatural site.
Brian

On a total aside, I don't think much of The WB becoming "The New CW." I realize this is a result of a WB and CBS station fornication, but dammit! I've never seen so many commercials during a 1 hr program in my life.
And when a show as tense and edgy as Supernatural is interrupted every seven minutes, with five minutes of commercials ( half of them being for other CW shows) ...it's as aggravating as all get-out.
Note to any lurking WB/CBS folks, I know you're out there...
The CW SUCKS!!! Clean up the commecial interruptions. Man, I used to think the old PAX-TV stations were bad.
Why don't you just make a Commercial Channel? I'm serious, all commercials, all the time, why dink around? You could have the "Best of Detergent" commercial hour, followed by "Franchise Restaurant Commercial Awards, 2006." And not to forget, "Retro Commercial Classics." Everything from the smarmy Little Ceasar's Pizza and Wendy's commercials of the 80's ( Where's the beef? ) to the old classic black-and-whites.
Of course, that's just perversely clever enough to be successful, which means ya won't do it. THHBPTH!!!
Brian

Don't tell me you're fallin' for that Dean Winchester.

I started watching this show because of the '67 Impala in it. I got some bias there. But I've been pleased to find that this show is very well-written, and chock-full of tension, surprise, and drama.
The central characters, Sam and Dean, are two brothers who roam the country in a vintage Chevy, on an endless mission to disrupt evil phenomena wherever it may lurk. Sam, the younger brother, is a boyish youth recently jaded by loss, but not quite over his ideals yet. Dean is the older, protective brother who's been jaded a lot longer than Sam. Together, they remind me of the dark Dukes of suburbia.
For those of you who've never seen the show, let me paint a brief picture of what these two modern-day exorcists do. Last episode, they returned to their haunted childhood home to fight a Lurking Evil that threatens the new homeowner. ( A helpless blonde single mother of two. What nice boys. ) Anyway, after things like knives flying out of the kitchen drawer and furniture moving around on it's own - Sam becomes trapped in the house by Something Evil that is trying to kill him.
Dean, locked outside, runs to the trunk of the Impala and grabs nothing less than a sawed-off shotgun and an axe, and hacks his way through the front door in a desperate fury to save his brother.
A shotgun and an axe. YEEEHAAAA!! Now that's entertainment.
Man, the Dukes only had compound bows and hunting knives. If Bo and Luke had this trunkful of artillery in the General Lee, ol' Rosco woulda kept his distance.
Brian

Holy cow, I had a lot to catch up on tonight! Another great eclectic mix we got goin'. I'm gonna throw in another Elton tune:

( and on past remarks - I agree, MaryAnne's got looks too, and you might as well give her credit for some brawn. Or at least a mean streak. Heh heh!)

Ya know, I was all set to give you a smack in the head, but you may be on to something there. I looked up the AARP discount at Denny's and it's like 20%! Might just be worth it.
Of course, it doesn't surprise me that you know all about senior discounts, given how many times you've turned 21.
Back to the discounts...oh, lookit! Dunkin' Donuts gives AARP members a free donut with any large or extra large coffee purchase. I'll go ahead and make you a fake AARP card too, 'cause I know you want in on that one.

Oh, that's good. Compliment followed immediately by a disclaimer of insincereity. Heh! Man, sometimes I feel like I'm sitting in one of those carnival dunk tanks on this board. Just when I'm sittin' all nice n' comfy, somebody throws one at me. *BONK* *splash!*
Now, if I was gonna write really meaningless posts, I'd have to throw in more non-linear thinking. Chance of snow tomorrow. And I'd have to make sure to use words out of context. Bladder. And be disassociated from the actual converation at hand. In other words I don't have to change a thing.

Yeah, Roger went and woke me up.
And as somebody said a few points ago....man, these threads get off-topic all the time. What this place needs is a good moderator.
But it ain't gonna get one. Muahahahaha!!

Oh, somebody's a smarty-pants!
You want more posts with less quality?! You got it. When it comes to worthless comments, I got the market cornered.
'Scuze me while I go admire my post count.