MikeL

What heatstroke

About time

With heatstroke

Shop Worn

Fried Apples

Links sausage (Let's try to resurrect this.)

Keno Sweetheart

Ford Fairlane (Talk about the good ole days.)

Great playlist, Matty...at least the ones I've heard. Have you ever hear Ottmar Liebert's acoustic cover of "Kashmir"? Sample

GM also built Pontiacs for young people. I owned three of them along the way, including the first car I ever bought. Now they have dropped Pontiac. Where is the product that will build loyalty as younger drivers age? Where will new Buick customers come from? Worse yet, what sort of cars will GM offer when Congress finishes designing them. Politicians are already trying to call the shots, insisting that GM build more electric cars...which no one wants. For the record, I have never owned a Buick and never will. I've moved away from GM products toward Chrysler products in recent years (which have been excellent cars). We recently bought the first foreign car we have bought in 32 years.

Defeated champion

Carl, why don't we old guys all buy Buicks and move to Drewbieville?

Hotter wetness

I found Borat both boring and offensive. Worry not, Jack...I'm saving my money.

On which point, Drew?

I started out reading this thinking you were dissing Buicks. Was I ever wrong! Buick has spent tons of money trying to position their product as a young person's car, even paying Tiger Wood millions to be their spokesman. It appears you are not easily swayed by advertising. That's not a bad thing. I wonder what old folks could do to change your opinion of them. Perhaps they could appeal to your love for your parents or grandparents. No, I guess that won't work on you. Hmmm...I'll give it more thought after my nap.

Two sweeteners

Head Games

Horse sweat

TomTom's been trying to sell this to me. Think I'll pass.

I'll try to stay on topic. Everyone has something from the past to reminisce about. Even young adults in their twenties and thirties, slaving away in an office or on an assembly line five days a week, remember their youth when they were in school (or at least recess). There are some who are old enough can remember a less complicated, less materialistic time. If you were poor, you didn't know it because the Jones' had not yet gotten into conspicuous consumption. IMHO, everyone, even those who have been subject to discrimination, have their good ole days. Is it trite to refer to the good ole days? Perhaps, but it can relieve some stress and, on rare occassion, may be enlightening for the hearers. Fair warning: If you don't want to hear reminiscences about the 1940s, don't read the following. Cokes 5¢ (the cola, not the white powder), Hershey bars 5¢, Saturday afternoon movies 12¢ (six cartoons, newsreel, serial adventure, and two main feature movies; if you liked the show, you could stay and see it again; our parents used the time to conceive our little siblings). Now, those were the times. Of course, our parents had grown up during the Great Depression; they may have not had any good ole days. Their frugal habits didn't register with us kids until years later when we began to accumulate stuff.

Hot stonewear

Otherwise ants

Wearisome teat

Two reestimates