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don't longer growing seasons mean more crops (and more food), much of which could be used to fucking help feed the poor of the world?

And I no longer give a flyingfistfuck of fucking fuckitude about any ice other than the ise in my martini shaker

2 Whiners, all.  DC is getting a typical Michigan winter.

General Washington won the nation's freedom in weather just as bad.

3 Longer growing seasons Oh God, no! Anything but that! I can see why we need to destroy the economy, we need to get rid of all of the extra food that we will get from global warming.

4 Stupid iPod. Can't format anything right.

5

it would be a blast going sideways at about 15 MPH with the speedometer reading 80 (ahhhh, my teenage years

No ice - I'm a in Cali - but I recall one day getting out of classes, and we all headed out the parking lot east on E18th, left on Rameriz and right on Rideout ...to discover they had oiled the pavement.

Hilarity ensued.

Well, until we almost wide-eyed crashed the pristine 1950 Ford sedan into a parked car (after 3-4 brodies).

...and of course drugs were semi-involved (we would have taken advantage of that stone-cold sober though): it was 1969 after all, and we were sophisticated juniors.

It's a wonder any of us stupid-fucks survived at all ....

6 I got a car at the beginning of my junior year, the first year and a half I spent more time with the car going sideways than going forward.
In winter especially.
I figured that people get in trouble when they start sliding unexpectedly so I spent all my time sliding. That way it wasn't unexpected.

7 2nd car I had was a 69 Impala 4 door. It was a lead sled, 327, automatic, 4 wheel drum manual brakes, limited slip posi rear end.Was living in S.E. WI (end of and just after high school) and the place I was working at part time, the only way to get there was driving down a 1/4 mile hill, up the other side, then a sharp right and up a 1/4 mile gravel hill driveway. In the middle of winter, everyone else parked at the bottom of the driveway and walked up. Not me, that chevy made it all the way up to the top, sideways, creeping about 5mph. It would also go through drifts as high as the top of the wheel-well without slowing down much. They sure don't make cars like they used too.

8 There was a road near my house, Jeffrey Lane, it went up a hill in a looping pattern.
You went right, wide turn, back to the left, wide turn, back to the right, wide turn, back left.
Like an S with a another loop or two, up a steep hill.

Nobody but snowmobilers went up it in the winter, except me. In my 72 Cutlass Supreme 2dr, 350 4bbl, 3-speed automatic trans, 4-wheel drum, no pansy ass posi.
I just pointed the car straight up the hill, punched it and used the steering wheel. I would go up at about 10-15 MPH, sliding sideways back and forth with the car always facing up the hill and the speedometer reading 80-100.

That was all about teh adrenaline.

9 I currently live almost exactly where the thermocline changes.  Seriously, I'll have four or five inches of snow and go 2/10ths of a mile down to the stop sign and maybe an inch.  Good times, good times.  My driveway is moderately steep, gravel covered and there's a natural spring that sends water down in even in the middle of a drought.  This makes a nice natural bobsled run.  Directly across the street is a guardrail, then a steep pitch down into a stream.  Oh it's fun times heading out for work, let me tell you. 

It's even better when the idiots are flying past at 50 mph then lose it when they hit the ice patch on the road and slam into the abandoned house next to me.  There's always at least one idiot who manages to get into the stream.

Fun fun fun. 

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72 Cutlass Supreme 2dr, 350 4bbl, 3-speed automatic trans, 4-wheel drum, no pansy ass posi

...ah: sophmore HS driving class (required to get your CA driver's license at 16) we "learned" in a new 68 Cutlass Supreme ...Saturday and the Algebra teacher - Mr Charles ...the teachers could make a few extra bucks by teaching "driving class" evenings and weekends - would meet with the three of us at 08:00A and we'd get back around 02:00P. We drove hundreds of miles through the Sierra's (spring time: little snow left ...but occasional patches, and we'd stop and throw snow-balls).

Geez, that brought back memories: that was the first new car I was ever in (let alone drove) ...though I actually learned to drive in a '59 Ford stepside in a field, and spent most of my teen years driving around in this (my parent's '59 was ice-white tho') ...the definitive pimp car ...6,000 pounds plus of chrome and fins.

And oh yes: I could get it sideways! Although that almost resulted in me rear-ending my best friend's parent's Chrysler New Yorker (PUSH-BUTTON shifters!!!11leventy!) one cold wet icy winter day ...only his reflexes saved our asses from getting killed (I'm sure) by both our parents'.

...if you can imagine - usually 6-8 - neurotic, mildly stoned teenagers tooling around Aggy-town on a Saturday evening, the smell of pot wafting out the open windows: I can never hear Hotel California without seeing that car from the driver's seat.

 

11 There's nothing like 2 tons of <1972, Detroit steel barreling down the road.
CAFE screwed us all.

12 3 Longer growing seasons Oh God, no! Anything but that! I can see why we need to destroy the economy, we need to get rid of all of the extra food that we will get from global warming.

Posted by: Jeff M at February 09, 2010 12:16 PM (HllLs)

Think of it as the first salvo in our ongoing battle against the demon, Obesity.

13 Heh, I though Jeff M. had not read his earlier comment and reposted it.

Cabin Fever. It's like drugs only the snow is legal and a lot cheaper.

14 How dare you, I would never double-post.

15 How dare you, I would never double-post.

16

Global Warming causes blizzards.

Read Time watch NBC like the 2 dozen other people in werethefuckwazzit?

17

Forgot

Federal debt is good (ala Kieth)