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17763. jayackroyd - 12/9/2005 12:14:28 AM Yes, No, I thought so too. They've got an olde English thing going that might work really well for Christmas music. 17764. wonkers2 - 12/9/2005 12:48:02 AM Driving too close and falling asleep at the wheel are two of the biggest causes of bad accidents. 17765. Ms. No - 12/9/2005 12:56:01 AM In the Sepulveda pass on the 405 a six lane freeway comes up from the valley floor, peaks over the Hollywood/Santa Monica mountains and then heads down the other side into West LA. The problem comes from the fact that very often the traffic backs up badly on the downward side of the hill and you can't see it until you come over the top....when it's too late to brake from your 70mph speed and avoid hitting people.
I got stopped, dead stopped, in the fast lane heading over the top of the pass for who knows what reason. The carpool lane beside us was empty and the other lanes of traffic were moving swiftly. The stop was pretty sudden and there I am at the end of the line a sitting duck as I watch a giant SUV getting bigger and bigger in my rearview mirror.
There's nowhere for me to go. Nothing to do except sit there and wait to get hit. This guy is flying and there's no way he'll be able to stop in time. At the last second he swerved into the empty carpool lane and missed me whereupon all the cars behind him had to do the same thing because they couldn't see me around him. I sat through that same little deathwatch four times in rapid succession before the information had moved back into the traffic far enough for people to avoid us.
And then my lane started moving again. 17766. judithathome - 12/9/2005 1:07:46 AM Did you have your emergency flashers on? I flip them on anytime I come upon a weird holdup in traffic. 17767. The Summer Woman - 12/9/2005 3:31:46 AM "There's a rodablock up ahead. I thought you said this road was open."
"It is open."
"Well, there's a humvee and a bunch of national Guardsmen."
"We'll just tell them that we've got permission."
"Permission for what?"
"Just keep driving, they're not even paying any attention to us."
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"Looks like this road was paved pretty recently. That's a shame."
"Are your sure this road is open? There aren't any shoulders left and the asphalt keeps falling away into the flood waters."
"Yes, I'm sure. The directions say it's open and the Guard didn't stop us."
"Yeah, well, you might as well drive down the middle on the double yellow lines. Now that there's less than one lane left."
"Isn't it amazing how the water comes just up to, but not over the road?"
"What the hell are you talking about? You think just because this fragment of road you're driving on is dry and the rest of the road is in the bay that the water comes 'just up to' the road but technically not over it. Jesus."
"Look at the barge over there and the shrimp boats. Wonder how they're going to get those back in the water..."
"They seem to be the only things not in the water."
"What are all those pilings? The pelicans sure do like them."
"Um...that's where buildings used to be?"
"It says here that we turn left after the bridge."
"Give me that map, and watch the road for Pete's sake..."
"It isn't as if there's any other traffic to worry about."
What's that up ahead? That thing sort of sticking up out of the water?"
"It's called a bridge. And it's not there anymore."
"Could we trade places? I'm not very good at three-point turns."
17768. alistairconnor - 12/9/2005 12:56:08 PM Wonk : Detroit... the first front wheel drive car, the Toronado, in the 1966.
Et mon cul, c'est du poulet!
Ever seen one of these?
The Citroën "Traction Avant"... (that's French for "front wheel drive") Produced from 1934 to 1957.
My brother used to have one in the 70s... sometimes lent it to me. Handled surprisingly well on gravel roads. 17769. Magoseph - 12/9/2005 2:25:23 PM Hello, Summer--It's so nice to see you! So, you too have one these husbands...
Ali, the "Traction Avant" was a nightmarish sight for me when I was a teenager--everywhere I looked, there it was with my dad in it, so I thought. 17770. alistairconnor - 12/9/2005 2:34:32 PM My dear. How very Marguerite Duras. Did he have a Vietnamese valet tied to the front fender? 17771. alistairconnor - 12/9/2005 2:38:18 PM My dear. How very Marguerite Duras. Did he have a Vietnamese valet tied to the front fender?
I'm thinking that in the film "Diva", the Taiwanese bad guys drove around in a Traction too. 17772. thoughtful - 12/9/2005 2:52:18 PM Ahem. May I point out the Alvis with front wheel drive.
1928-1930 17773. Magoseph - 12/9/2005 2:55:18 PM Ali, I had two older sisters, one became a nun, the other had to marry a first cousin--I escaped to this country. 17774. Magoseph - 12/9/2005 2:58:51 PM Somebody last night had three Mallomars. Wonder who it was?
That question comes up at this time of year, for like Beaujolais nouveau, Mallomars are not a year-round delicacy, not even in the New York area, where 70 percent of Mallomars are sold. Mallomars return to supermarket shelves in the fall after a warm-weather break. But Mallomars connoisseurs do not celebrate by holding tastings of the new batch or by calling friends to announce "les Mallomars sont arrivés."
I keep them in the basement freezer and dole them out to Flexy two at the time, thawed, of course. He believes that I have them in the kitchen in a place that he can’t so far figure out. Is there anybody here who likes them? I do very much, but I don’t eat them. Flexy is completely helpless—he must eat the entire box at one sitting. 17775. Macnas - 12/9/2005 4:06:14 PM I have no idea what they are. 17776. alistairconnor - 12/9/2005 4:28:33 PM marshmallow Mars bar? 17777. Macnas - 12/9/2005 4:31:51 PM Milky way bars?
They have a kind of mallow muck in them. 17778. Magoseph - 12/9/2005 4:45:56 PM Here's a description stolen from Salon:
"The perfect combination of crunchy graham cracker, poofy marshmallow, enrobing, enveloping chocolate." 17779. Magoseph - 12/9/2005 4:50:09 PM More...
Pure Chocolate
Great As A After School Snack
Enjoyed For Over 90 Years
Ingredients:
"Sweet Chocolate Coating (Sugar, Chocolate, Cocoa Butter, Chocolate Processed With Alkali And Soy Lecithin - An Emulsifier), Enriched Flour (Wheat Flour, Niacin, Reduced Iron, Thiamine Mononitrate [Vitamin B1], Riboflavin [Vitamin B2], Folic Acid), Sugar, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Corn Syrup, Invert Sugar, Partially Hydrogenated Soybean Oil, Whey (From Milk), Gelatin, Leavening (Baking Soda, Calcium Phosphate), Salt, Artificial Flavor, Cornstarch." 17780. thoughtful - 12/9/2005 4:54:24 PM they sound like what we used to call scooter pies.
I guess other people called them moon pies
I used to consume a lot of them as a wee one but now the thought of them makes me cringe...way too sweet.
They were graham cracker cookie sandwich filled with marshmallow fluff of sorts and coated completely in chocolate. 17781. wonkers2 - 12/9/2005 5:14:28 PM thoughtful and alistaire, I guess you got me. (and da Vinci invented the helicopter, the submarine, etc.) Oldsmobile introduced the first successful frontwheel production car in the U.S. 17782. Macnas - 12/9/2005 5:26:50 PM When I used to eat chocolate, I'd like most anything made by cadbury or Fox or rountree.
I believe that Hershey do not know how to make chocolate.
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