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Location: 6 String Ranch | Heading South. This 40 degree, windy, rainy, spooful weather is making me WANT to listen to Jimmie Bouffay tunes. See ya'll in a couple of days and fu*#@&# behave while I'm gone! |
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Location: Midland, MI | Have a safe trip and Godspeed, W2! Don't worry about us behaving, Cliff won the election and is ruling the board with an iron hand! I think... |
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| I don't know what kind of weather you guy's get way down south and all? You make it sound cold. It's a sultry "43" this morning, and wet here, in the real cold country! Leaves are falling like rain when the wind picks up a little.
Yep Warm as a frog! I guess I'll have to sit in front of the fireplace and play some music.
After I get that pile of wood stacked up.
OK he's gone let's all get Nak^%^%d!!!!
Ahhh second thought lets not? |
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Location: puerto vallarta, mexico | que le vaya bien companero. |
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Location: NJ | SafeHome, Bill (& Co.) . . .
mebbe we'll hook up again on the "SowphSide" fer a Feb. "Flah"Day.
. . . wake up, Beazlie . . . |
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Location: Florida | we're freezin our capos off... its 65 here in Florida! |
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Location: Midland, MI | Rainy, windy, and mid-40's in Mid-Michigan. Feels like summer. |
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Location: NJ | ". . Cliff won the election and is ruling the board with an iron hand! . ."
For the record:
". . . I Am Not Running . . and If Elected, I Will Not Serve . . "
. . . in the words of our illustrious (ahem!) "leader" . . ". . it's hard WORK! . . "
(no $hit, a$$hole!!) |
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Location: Madison, Wisconsin | Did you need a little cheese with that "hard work" whine? |
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Location: Fayetteville, NC | Everyone Behave!! Al is bound to find a computer somewhere! :D
Safe Journey CWKII and co. The weather in florida is definately warmer than the Mountaintop this time of year. |
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Location: Houston, TX | Very wise of you to time your migration to coincide with the cooling up north and the end of sunami season down south.
I know a somewhat crazy but grounded ex-trucker in NC with a great accent and damn fine sense of humor if you need a ride.
Haven't talked to him in a while - have you? |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Scott, not talked to him in a coonsage. Got to fix that this year. Tell them all Hey for us.
Now the real question, What is it with these $$##$#@$ people who hog the left lane and go 5 over the limit and never move over? Why do they always have the chains around their liscense plates?(you know the ones) Or they are a 20 year old female? I need to get a 6x6x5foot chunck of mahogony on the front of the rover and move these people out of the hammer lane! ^%^%$#$#@$#%^&*&^%$@@$#%$##!!!!!!!
OK, I'm better now but it sure does piss me off. Still not a bad run, 17 hours drive time(over two days) and an average of 68.6 mph |
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Location: Midland, MI | Were they all driving Saturns? In 2.5 years of my 127.7 mile (one way) commute, I found that most of the fsckchops (sorry, Unix thing) in the left hand lane were women driving Saturns. I grew to dread the sight of one on the road. =( |
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Location: Houston, TX | Bill,
Very heartless of you to bring up the left lane controversy.
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((*&&^%%$
And more...
Hey, you gotta understand that I love my wife, have for 14 years, and will continue till I assume room temp...
but goddammit after all these years she still drives in the FFFFFF left lane as though it were the appropriate lane. The whole idea when she takes the wheel is to let me chill out for awhile and talk about existensial subject matter like the nature of farts and our warped reactions to such a natural event (by the way - I'm not the best farter, she is). It allows me time to try to make a musical connection between John Denver and Ronnie James Dio - and I am convinced that if she would just get our f%%%^^^ van over into the F%%%^^^ right lane, then I would be able to focus on the kind of intellectual epiphonies that Bailey gets to breathe in every morning - about 3am mountain time, I think. |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Bill
I always say, head for where it is warm as a principle of life, that is why I don't live in Ohio, and haven't visited there since 1964.
Push those slow travelling 1990 GMC Suburbans in the left lane with flaky paint and the left turn signal flashing right out of the way with a well executed PIT manuever. WHOA, some idiot just knocked me off the highway with a well executed PIT manuever while I was heading for where it was warm in my 1990 GMC Suburban.
Scott
My epiphanies are arrived at at 1 AM my time 3 AM board time but it is still in the middle of the night.
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Location: Midland, MI | I'm beginning to suspect that Scott has been possessed by the spirit of cliff. Or else it's catching...
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Location: NJ | ". . It Could Be That the Purpose of My Life Is Only to Serve as a Warning to Others . ." |
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Location: Upper Left USA | For the record it is the inside lane and not the "Fast" lane.
If people knew how to "Merge" there's be more people in the "Right" lane(s). *&#@%!
And this:
It's got a 4-barrel carb and dual exhausts,
4:11 gears that really get lost -
Safety tubes and I'm not scared,
The brakes are good and the tires are fair.
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Location: SoCal | For the record, it is the #1 lane, not the inside or fast lane. For cop purposes, the lanes on any road are numbered #1 (far left lane), #2 (lane to the right of #1, etc.
I personally believe that the 55 mph speed limit made this country into a nation of bad drivers. When I took driver's ed in 1970, I was taught that you use the #1 lane for passing, then move back over to the right. Keep moving to the right until people aren't passing you on the right. With the advent of the 55 mph speed limit, there was no passing lane and everybody just drove where they wanted to.
Nowdays on the highways, you see cars bunched up in the #1 and #2 lanes and people who are passing in the lanes further right. |
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Location: SoCal | For the record, it is the #1 lane, not the inside or fast lane. For cop purposes, the lanes on any road are numbered #1 (far left lane), #2 (lane to the right of #1, etc.
I personally believe that the 55 mph speed limit made this country into a nation of bad drivers. When I took driver's ed in 1970, I was taught that you use the #1 lane for passing, then move back over to the right. Keep moving to the right until people aren't passing you on the right. With the advent of the 55 mph speed limit, there was no passing lane and everybody just drove where they wanted to.
Nowdays on the highways, you see cars bunched up in the #1 and #2 lanes and people who are passing in the lanes further right. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | I hear you Paul,
I hear you Paul,
So I can grumble and blame it on the education system of the 70's?
I am going to drink my second cup of coffee and just express my thanks that W2, et al, had safe migrations.
Is Morris a Northerner of a Southerner? |
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Location: Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey | I think this issue of the 'left' lane is the single BIGGEST cause of traffic, and it's a daily struggle of mine to maintain a &*($%! sense of peace about it.
I believe that it is the fault of those "elder instructors" who teach their kids of driving age the perception that the left lane is the "fast lane", and not the "passing lane". Somehow people feel justified to drive in that lane as long as they are going over the speed limit. Doesn't matter that you need to pass, they will not let you, if they even have a &$%&*! clue that you are even behind them.
Meanwhile, it is illegal to not yield the right of way to an overtaking vehicle. No one seemed to tell them that one in driver's ed.
My friend was 'racing' another car somewhere in the desert of Arizona ( I think). The cars were neck in neck doing over 100mph when they passed a cop. My friend, in the left lane, got pulled over. He didn't get a speeding ticket, but rather, got pulled over for failure to pass in the left lane.
Go figure.
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Location: Tennessee | The "no passing on the right" law in California was repealed a couple of years back, I think with the intent of reducing the number of freeway shootings. All it has really done is turn the freeways into a slalom course for sedans and rollover testing grounds for the SUVs. The dolts in the left/fast/#1 lane don't move over because it's safest place to be when 1) knee-steering while 2) having the rear view mirror properly angled in order to put on makeup, shave, or pop zits.
On Interstate 5 through the middle of California it is ALWAYS faster to drive in the right lane than in the left, except during those times when it's primarily truckers on the road. Not because the trucks go slower (not usually the case), but because they understand road etiquette.
"We were driving up Grapevine Hill
Passing cars like they were standing still".
My wife and daughter (driving) got nailed a few months back for doing 96 over the Grapevine. The insurance agent was the one driven to drink ... champagne I think. :D |
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Location: Fayetteville, NC | I've had a philosophy about Speed Limits. If you don't go more that 5 miles over the posted limit you will never get a ticket. So I'm one of those drivers who refuses to drive any faster that that.
However, I do have the common sense to move to the Right Lane.(Around here as in most places slower traffic keeps right.)Now i will switch lanes to pass some ridiculous slowpoke going at least 5 or 10 under the posted speed limit. But it drives me crazy when i try to pass and there are individuals in the left lane moving just about as slow and not pulling over to let people pass thus making traffic back up.Just like Most of you,it's hard to keep my sanity in those cases. |
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Location: NJ | Whuzza "Speed Limit"?? |
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