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Tried to save the trees Bought a plastic bag The bottom fell out It was a piece of crap Saw it on the tube Bought it on the phone Now you're home alone It's a piece of crap I tried to plug in it I tried to turn it on When I got it home It was a piece of crap Got it from a friend On him you can depend I found out in the end It was a piece of crap I'm trying to save the trees I saw it on TV They cut the forest down To build a piece of crap I went back to the store They gave me four more The guy told me at the door It's a piece of crap

When I was learning to lead I got a #3 Camalot stuck due to simple inexperience. I could have learned the same lesson with a cam that cost a third as much. I prefer Camalots too, but not because I think it's the brand of gear that's gonna save my ass or not. Cheap cams just have a narrower expansion in the fingers-to-fist range.

Hardly anybody wins for something they did in the year they're nominated--the oscar goes to whoever was unfairly passed over the most in previous years. Bill Murray will prolly win for some crap Ron Howard flick in a year or two.

My eighth grade teacher had such a device. She called it a "blackboard."

ACME cams are made by Trango's Czech supplier for their Flex Cams--Hudy Sport--and they're the same item. They also make Rock Empire cams. Isn't Trango moving to a different kind of flex cam?

US Department of Retro Warns 'We May be Running Out of Past' WASHINGTON, DC—At a press conference Monday, U.S. Retro Secretary Anson Williams issued a strongly worded warning of an imminent "national retro crisis," cautioning that "if current levels of U.S. retro consumption are allowed to continue unchecked, we may run entirely out of past by as soon as 2005." Retro chart According to Williams—best known to most Americans as "Potsie" on the popular, '50s-nostalgia-themed 1970s sitcom Happy Days before being named head of the embattled Department of Retro by President Clinton in 1992—the U.S.'s exponentially decreasing retro gap is in danger of achieving parity with real-time historical events early in the next century, creating what leading retro experts call a "futurified recursion loop," or "retro-present warp," in the world of American pop-cultural kitsch appreciation. Such a warp, Williams said, was never a danger in the past due to the longtime, standard two-decade-minimum retro waiting period. "However, the mid-'80s deregulation of retro under the Reagan Administration eliminated that safeguard," he explained, "leaving us to face the threat of retro-ironic appreciation being applied to present or even future events." "We are talking about a potentially devastating crisis situation in which our society will express nostalgia for events which have yet to occur," Williams told reporters. The National Retro Clock currently stands at 1990, an alarming 74 percent closer to the present than 10 years ago, when it stood at 1969. Nowhere is the impending retro crisis more apparent, Williams said, than in the area of popular music. "To the true retrophile, disco parties and the like were common 10 years ago. Similarly, retro-intelligentsia have long viewed 'New Wave' and even late-'80s hair-metal retro as passé and no longer amusing as kitsch," Williams said. "We now face the unique situation of '90s retro, as evidenced by the current Jane's Addiction reunion tour: nostalgia for the decade in which we live." "Before long," Williams warned, "the National Retro Clock will hit 1992, and we will witness a massive grunge-retro explosion, which will overlap with the late-period, mainstream-pop remnants of the original grunge movement itself. For the first time in history, a phenomenon and nostalgia for that particular phenomenon will actually meet." "In other words, to quote '90s-retro kitsch figure David Lynch," Williams said, "'One of these days that gum you like is going to come back in style.'"

It beats the previous entry in that slot. It's weird to hear stuff that was blackballed down to college radio in the 80s mixed with the upmarket "alternative" rock god tunes from the 90s. But you can dial up to KNDD when your fave song is over and hear it again.

It'd be a long, slow change to reduce driving in the US, where lots of residential areas don't even have sidewalks.

take your pick

I just follow the dropped Nalgene bottles. Seriously, I don't trust flags anyway, for reasons somebody brought up above. Is it an approach trail, or am I gonna wind up at a logging survey site?

Dude, that's a hell of a question to ask in Subie Central

Back up on this

When my ride was a big-wheeled 4WD, I drove more aggro than in my wife's import car, because I felt safer. So no argument, but I generally prefer considerate drivers to the law of the wild.

I'm not inclined toward conspiracy theories, but the current push toward fuel cell tech just seems like a way to benefit oil & mining companies rather than consumers or the public good. Especially the way hybrid vehicles are painted as a primitive step (and thus not worth buying) toward hydrogen powered vehicles. Seems like totally unrelated technologies to me.

I think he was trying to surf on the hood of his truck. Shoulda used that alignment coupon first!

pass with ass flash direct link to mpg) ...and more Dutch jackassery

and the limitations of your dumbassedness

sarcasm... the trouble with fuel cells: "Nuclear energy, solar energy, fossil energy are all primary energy sources. Hydrogen is not, it doesn't exist, it has to be produced. Electricity is not, it has to be produced," he said. "So in each case, with hydrogen or with electricity you have to produce them with a primary energy source. And in this country we produce almost all of our electricity with the primary source of coal."

That's crap! Fuel cell technology is the only viable technology, because it requires about as much fossil fuels to make the hydrogen as a gas engine would. Getting us from place to place is a nice benefit, but everybody knows the purpose of transportation is to turn all the world's oil into CO2.

I think that's what the article said is unsafe: lots of vehicles that ordinary cars can't see through, over or around.

That's a cool penis tattoo you've got there, Greg.

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