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  Hyuk! Just joshing, of course... A wee bit o' whimsy!

Please don't come after me, Mr. Big-American-Car-Driving American!

(Me)        (Thou)


 

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Peter Rideout wrote:  PS: Is your car's name "Shadowfax," Gandalf Stormcrow?

Nice catch!

Peter Rideout wrote: Please don't come after me, Mr. Big-American-Car-Driving American!

I might be mollified by the offer of an icy bottle of Moosehead and the dulcet strains of "Xanadu" wafting from your new "boombox".

 

 It's bigger than a boombox! (or a breadbox, for that matter!) Separate spkrs & sub, no handle.

BTW: Can you buy Chinese (red, get it?) goods there? How about chicken balls?

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Speaking personally

I drive a Ford Mondeo, I have no issues whatsoever about the size of my system, I do have large feet (an a consequently enormous....... sock drawer) & as for the possibility of Stormcrow's car being called Shadowfax:

Picture the scene

50,000 rampaging orcs assaulting Helms Deep; Aragorn looks to the East (it being the dawn of the 5th day), expecting to see Gandalf on a magnificent white elvish stallion before the massed ranks of the riders of Rohan..... but no! What is this?

Several hundred classic American cars come beetling over the headland, down the steep embankment toward a cowering orcish horde..... who then look on astonished as the whole lot crash into a crumpled heap at the bottom of the hill, disgorging dazed MacDonald eating drivers, all discussing the superbowl & comparing the size of their feet.

Peter Jackson would not have got the Oscar for that one!

Jim Garten wrote: Picture the scene 50,000 rampaging orcs assaulting Helms Deep; Aragorn looks to the East (it being the dawn of the 5th day), expecting to see Gandalf on a magnificent white elvish stallion before the massed ranks of the riders of Rohan..... but no! What is this? Several hundred classic American cars come beetling over the headland, down the steep embankment toward a cowering orcish horde..... who then look on astonished as the whole lot crash into a crumpled heap at the bottom of the hill, disgorging dazed MacDonald eating drivers, all discussing the superbowl & comparing the size of their feet.    Peter Jackson would not have got the Oscar for that one!

 Ha! Really funny, James! (I mean it.) I laughed aloud, & so did my ten-year-old Legolas fan, though I don't think she got the reference to the feet....

You strange, funny, wonderful man! Quit smoking, get a "weave" and all necessary alterations (you can probably claim it on your lefty socialized public health plan),  take some cooking courses, and marry me!

(Hey, it'll soon be legal! Course it already is for those free-wheeling, topless shampoo commercial-ogling, man-purse sporting, clog-wearing Europeans.)

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 Jimbo, you'll just have to find something else to hold in your other hand when you drink.... Uh, wait, that could lead to trouble.... ( I hope you type with BOTH hands?!)

When friends who smoked would say "But it gives me something to do with my hands," I used to advise them to "Just do what I do: pick your nose, or wh*** o**!"

He: Do you smoke after sex?

She: Maybe. I never checked!

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Peter Rideout wrote: BTW: Can you buy Chinese (red, get it?) goods there? How about chicken balls?

Do you mean like all the "made in People's Republic of China" crep at Wallyworld.... or like, Chinese food?

I live in a smaller town (pop. 22,000), there's a Walmart in town as well as 4 Chinese restuarants.  We lost our Korean eating establishment.  It was the best.

Stormcrow wrote:

Do you mean like all the "made in People's Republic of China" crep at Wallyworld.... or like, Chinese food?

I live in a smaller town (pop. 22,000), there's a Walmart in town as well as 4 Chinese restuarants.  We lost our Korean eating establishment.  It was the best.

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I seriously wasn't sure whether you could buy Chinese goods in America. I don't think that you can buy Cuban goods or travel to Cuba, can you? (Canadians can.) I was just curious. (  Obviously, I know full well that you can buy all sorts of Chinese food in the U.S.)

Can American companies invest in China? 

I live in a small city of 50,000. We've got the ubiquitious "Wallyworld" as well. 

Canadian youth (and I bet where you live too) all talk like Californian Valley Girls. (Frank saw it coming!) This plague on language is spreading everywhere English is heard, and even into other languages!:

"So anyway, he goes 'like, what do you want to do?' so I like go 'I don't know,' then he goes 'well, I'm really, like, bored," so I go 'like, so am I. This is, like, so lame.....'" !

(And so on. If you start to count the "likes" when a gaggle of teens speak, you'll like, go like, MAD!)

 

This is just like soooooo grody to the max....... totalllllyyyy...... barf out...... gag me with a spoon

etc etc etc

At least these are vague approximations of language, as opposed to a majority of British youth (or 'yoof'), where any word in excess of 2 syllables marks you out as an outsider, and any sentence structure now has to be in text-ese (the curse of the mobile phone.....)

I listen to music in three ways: My truck (stock), My computer (Altec Lansing cheapoos w/ sub-woofer, nothing secial) and My Discman. I did have a nice system, once. Lost it in a divorce.  I did purchase a surround sound system, but I don't listen to much music at home.